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Striptease is the best and also the shortest of the three plays. For unknown reasons, two strangers suddenly find themselves trapped in a single room, and in between rationalizing their behavior, they obey the directions of a gigantic hand, which gestures to them to remove their clothes. The gimmick alone is clever, and Mrozek, with a fine sense of the dramatic, skillfully brings out the contrast between the feeble human discussions and the powerful silence of the Hand...
...Sandy (Leo Phillips), to marry Jeannie and give her child a name. The actors are all stringently naturalistic, and Director-Writer William Fruet, setting his somber story in a provincial Canadian town during World War II, is scrupulous about details of place. He also takes care with even the shortest scene, the slightest ges ture, and what power Wedding in White possesses draws from the impact of accumulated detail. Beyond some few grace notes of style, though, Wedding in White is a film without subtlety or surprise. Fruet's script is heavy and strident. This oblique anger, mingled with...
...teach G.L.M., but some do not because it is expensive to stock skis in all those different lengths. As a compromise between price and proficiency, many areas are adopting the American Teaching Method. The A.T.M. skiers learn on a single pair of 5-ft. skis, about halfway between the shortest G.L.M. equipment and the 7-ft. skis that experts...
...Charley! How 'bout that for the shortest campaign in history ... Naw, I'm not a bit down in the dumps about...
...addition to lively anecdotes, Deford, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED editor, provides mundane business details and splendidly unmemorable facts: Arizona's Jacque Mercer, the 1949 queen, was not only the lightest winner, at 106 lbs., and the second shortest, 5 ft. 3 in., but the last contestant not born in a hospital. Hefty appendices should be especially valuable to 25th century anthropologists. They contain such data as winners' measurements, figure trends (waists getting narrower, hips and busts balancing at the ideal of 35½-22½-35½), and the fact that there have been 228 contestants whose first names...