A scowling youth,
Vaguely Karloff-esque,
Crouches,
Knife in hand,
Decapitating pineapples.
Gathering Pineapples, St. Vincent
Japanese Girls Doing Synchronized Dance Movements To A Jazz Riff On Lerner & Loewe
This should probably be over in the Tidbits section, but…a real-time clock featuring Japanese girls doing synchronized dance movements to a jazz riff on Lerner & Loewe? Come on! How insanely cool is that?
I think they’re selling polo shirts, but, as I always say, do you really need an excuse for Japanese girls doing synchronized dance movements to a jazz riff on Lerner & Loewe?
Is there a 24-hour cable channel in Japan with this sort of thing? You know, “All Japanese Girls Doing Synchronized Dance Movements To A Jazz Riff On Lerner & Loewe…All The Time?”
If not, there should be.
[Note: I’ve turned the sound off by default so you aren’t driven insane by the constant ticking, so be sure to click on the small speaker icon in the lower right for the full effect. Also, you can click on the movie or visit the UNIQLOCK site for a full-screen version.]
Nurse of the Midnight Sun
by Mary Collins Dunne (1973)
Cory Hanson didn’t consider herself a man-chaser, but it was six months since her fiance, Paul Farron, had left Oregon for an engineering job with the Trask Valley project in Alaska–and she missed him! After writing Paul that she was flying out for a vacation, she gave up her apartment and her hospital job and boarded the plane for Kovarik.
Once she reached the small sawmill town of Datlow Springs, Cory had to wait two weeks for Paul’s arrival. When he finally showed up, it was with the overwhelming news that he had just gotten married.
Though Cory wanted nothing more than to return to Oregon immediately, an accident at the mill changed her plans–and laid the foundation for a surprising turn of events in the Land of the Midnight Sun.
Nurse Hanson looks like she’s in her mid-50s, the dashing doctor looks like one of those one-episode “featured actors” from Hawaii Five-O.
And for the briefest of moments I thought that was a unicorn in the background.
Nurse Chadwick’s Sorrow
by Diana Douglas (1967)
Two doctors shared Ruth Chadwick’s shameful secret–and and one unforgivable incident would haunt their lives forever.
Till Death Do Us Part
Ruth Chadwick would never forgive Dr. Barry Kade for a night of insanity that changed her life. She would never return to Dr. Graham Chadwick, her husband. The only thing that still tied her to these two men was a bond of pain and hatred.
And now Tracey Norton was involved. Tracey…pretty, talented, very attractive to a man like Dr. Kade. Unable to stop her, Ruth saw Tracey being caught in her own hidden past–in the frightening truth that lay behind Nurse Chadwick’s Sorrow
Nurse at Cap Flamingo
by Violet Winspear (1964)
Nurse Fern Heatherly had travelled from England to California with a patient and then decided she might as well stay for a while, so she accepted the job of looking after the elderly Miss Kingdom.
Her troubles began when Miss Kingdom’s nephew was seen leaving Fern’s room in the early hours of the morning. It was all completely innocent, but Ross chivalrously insisted on marrying her to protect her reputation.
But Fern, being very much in love with him, wanted a better reason than that.
I can’t decide which name I like more: Fern Heatherly or Violet Winspear.