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Gauguin's portrait proved prophetic. A few days later. Gauguin returned to find Van Gogh upstairs, unconscious, a bloody bandage wrapped around his head. Van Gogh, in despair at Gauguin's decision to leave Aries, had severed his left ear with a razor, handed it as a gift to the prostitute who had befriended him. Van Gogh recovered to paint some of his greatest works, including one self-portrait with his disfigured head shrouded in bandages. But after two years of living on the borderline of madness, he shot himself...
Life with Mother. In Hamburg, Germany, Gerda Thimm, 22, was sentenced to six years in prison for mistreating her husband by 1) dropping acid into his ears while he slept, 2) attempting to slip a razor-blade sliver under his eyelid, 3) putting rat poison...
Capital Gains. In London, William E. Hughes was acquitted of charges of failing to pay taxes after he explained that he had saved $16,800 out of his $56-a-week salary by shaving with his brother's razor blades, wearing his father's clothes, charging his grandmother 12% interest on money she borrowed, eating everything on the table even if he did not want it, never going out with women, never taking a holiday trip that cost more than...
...Sydney. Australia, Phyllis Newton was fined $116 after she waylaid her husband on his return from a swim, pelted him with fruit, brass ashtrays, a doorstop, an electric iron, a lemon squeezer, a portable radio and a radiator, then cut up his new suit with a razor and burned his swimming trunks in the stove...
...Gina Lollobrigida as she scattered sex and devastation through the streets of an Abruzzi village, and in the manly breasts of Policeman Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Risso. Frisky assembles all of the old cast and most of the old plot for another run-through. But this time the razor edge of comedy has dulled: Gina's rowdiness is strident, De Sica's amorous posturings predictable, Risso's Li'l Abnerisms boring. Like the picture itself, the earthquake that brings everything to a happy conclusion is anticlimactic...