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Whether Greta Garbo actually ever said, I want to be alone (she did), is of little consequence in the larger scheme of things; but the world consists of many parts, including many smaller--even infinitesimal--things, and we must not turn our noses up at the exact wording of Neil Armstrong's moon quotation: at least it was in English, and one need not try to explain that in Et tu, Brute , the last word is not the English word brute but the vocative case of Latin Brutus and then go off into the paroxysmal grammar of Latin to explain what a vocative is.
flickeringlit numbers above an art deco doorin the brain's elevator, a polishedmarble cage dropping you smoothlyto the luxurious lobby of SerenitasHotel--a '30s spa, a hangoutgraced by Garbo and Groucho,
Greta Garbo, Käthe Kollwitz, and other emancipated women are significantly portrayed, and at the lower right is a map of Europe in which the countries that have given women the right to vote appear in white.
Probably no star could get away with it if he weren't such an image of cool, as beautiful and remote and self-contained as Garbo or Chet Baker.
The desired effect appeared in the movies on the heads of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich and their glamorous colleagues, such as Gene Tierney in Laura in her scene at the Algonquin with Clifton Webb.
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