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20. What Is It?, 3 stars. Desperately in debt couple have to sell their fancy convertible, wife seals the deal the old fashioned way.
21. Signals, 3 stars. Angry little man begrudgingly takes a woman out to a swanky restaurant, snips and complains about everything the entire meal.
22. Will You Please be Quiet, Please?, 3 stars. Man suspects wife cheated, she confesses several years later after he demands to know.

17. The Ducks, 1 star. Inattentive husband doesn't spend much time at home, gets sent home from work early when a coworker dies.
18. How About This?, 2 stars. City boy has a romanticized idea of what county life would be like, hates his wife's family home on sight.
19. Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes, 3 stars. Man is summoned to his son's friend's home about a missing bicycle, gets in a fistfight with another father.

14. Put Yourself in my Shoes, 2 stars. Out of work writer's wife convinces him to visit the people they housesat for, is subjected to nasty stories and resentment.
15. Jerry and Molly and Sam, 2 stars. Philandering drunk of a husband decides to abandon the family dog, but not his mistress.
16. Why, Honey?, 3 stars. Mother of a psychopath is in hiding, replies to an unexpected letter asking about her son.

11. Collectors, 3 stars. Deranged(?) vacuum salesman cleans everything in a sad bachelor's apartment, steals some mail.
12. What Do You Do in San Francisco?, 3 stars. Snoopy mailman speculates about the new artsy family on his route, offers unsolicited advice.
13. The Student's Wife, 3 stars. Awful woman won't let her husband fall asleep, demands to be entertained and have her ramblings attended to.

08. Sixty Acres, 3 stars. Unwilling ancestral landowner dreads chasing hunters off his property, drags his feet to stall as long as he can.
09. What's in Alaska?, 2 stars. Unhappy couple get high at their friends' house, woman is overly friendly with the other's husband.
10. Night School, 2 stars. Sadsack tries to get women to buy him beer, promises them a car ride with no intention of following through.

05. Are You a Doctor?, 3 stars. Man receives a wrong number call from a lonely woman, agrees to meet her at her house.
06. The Father, 4 stars. Children muse over the likeness of their father and new baby brother.
07. Nobody Said Anything, 3 stars. Parents bitter arguments upset kid, he plays hookie and goes fishing for the day.

01. Fat, 3 stars. Waitress serves a polite obese gentleman, worries about being pregnant.
02. Neighbors, 3 stars. Married couple snoops around neighbors' while housesitting.
03. The Idea, 3 stars. Married couple spy on man spying on his undressing wife.
04. They're Not Your Husband, 3 stars. Insecure asshole bullies his wife into losing weight after overhearing men talk about her.

Wiki: "He had a stroke which partly paralysed him and was removed to an expensive home for incurable elderly people, where he was propped up in bed, day and night, his red eyes fixed on a picture on the opposite wall called ‘The Piper of Dreams’."

Wiki: " Buckminster Fuller came to mind immediately."

Wiki: "... and he could never shave close enough to eliminate an Emmett Kelly shadow."

Wiki: "[He takes the theorbo and plays a flourish on it. ROXANE appears on the balcony.]"


Introducing the Baroque Theorbo - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Wiki: "This last of speakers closed his mouth again
and, shivering, looked around in Mima’s den
where the journey of life had now gone farther
than any place once dreamt of in Tagus’ glen."

Word/wiki: "What a crushing blow for that thrasonical
bullet-headed breaker of mankind."

1. Resembling Thraso or his behaviour; given to or marked by boasting; bragging, boastful, vainglorious.

Wiki: "... it was all over, the goldonder dove
along the loxodrome
to which in her fall she clove."

Wiki: "I was the one who gave them the idea of putting on Britannicus and they wanted to make me play Junie."

"I said, like them, “The ocean is green; that white speck up there is a seagull,” but I didn’t feel that it existed or that the seagull was an “existing seagull”; usually existence hides itself."

... Nonexistent seagull.

Wiki: "At 16 Rue Tournebride, Urbain, the hatter, specializing in forage caps, has hung up as a symbol, an immense, red archbishop’s hat whose gold tassels hang six feet from the ground."

Wiki: "Like the Norns these two men have only one eye between them with which they take turns."

01. The Man Who Was Left Behind, 5 stars. Wealthy man lives like a hobo after his entire family dies on vacation.
02. Something To Write Home About, 3 stars. Married couple go on a long holiday in the middle of the wife's (justified?) nervous breakdown.
03. St. George and the Nightclub, 5 stars. Married couple try to make it work one last time while on vacation, give newlyweds opposing advice about their sex life.

Wiki: "In summer or the beginning of autumn, you can find remnants of sun-baked newspapers in gardens, dry and fragile as dead leaves, so yellow you might think they had been washed with picric acid."

Wiki: "Fanny Hill. No kidding. Sort of broke her up. She’d been reading it with the cover held back."

08. Thing of Beauty, 3 stars. Low level con artist receives some misdelivered packages, is determined to squeeze every dime out of his Swedish opportunity.
09. Special Delivery, 2 stars. Woman is pregnant with an intelligent but hostile fetus, parents-to-be are exhausted by his relentless demands.
10. I See You, 3 stars. Man invents a remote viewing device, the concept of privacy ceases to exist for all time.

Wiki: "One week, she ate nothing but nuts and fruit washed down with distilled water; the next, she was on a diet of porterhouse steak, dandelion greens and Hadacol."

04. Anachron, 3 stars. Ruthless man covets his brother's invention, uses it to steal from a museum.
05. Life Edit, 3 stars. Woman likes her job, company pressures her to undergo career advancement treatments.
06. A Likely Story, 2 stars. A party for snooty scifi authors descends into chaos, someone operates a pranking device.
07. La Ronde, 3 stars. Confused man wanders away from car accident, breaks into empty cabin.

Wiki: "Peter’s passion was virtu."

01. To Serve Man, 4 stars. Ugly aliens arrive with gifts for the world, one man remains suspicious of their motives.
02. The Enemy, 4 stars. Teenager conducting a mineral survey discovers signs of previous inhabitants, has an unnecessarily aggressive reaction to learning she's not alone.
03. Mary, 2 stars. Sad girl pines away for her one night stand, her sisters don't understand.

Word: "... and still more power — hating every erg of it."

1. A unit of work or energy; the amount of work done when a force of one dyne moves its point of application one centimetre in the direction of the force.

2. A type of desert area in the Sahara consisting of shifting sand dunes.

Wiki: "The capital was lovely: a rose-red city half as old as time. "

Wiki: "I think when he turned the pages of the Almanach de Gotha his heart beat warmly as one name after another brought back to him recollections of old wars, historic sieges, and celebrated duels, diplomatic intrigues, and the love affairs of kings."

Wiki: "The janbiya had been given to her by a visiting Azd dignitary — a present for banishing a particularly nasty nasnas troubling his clan."