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“... it (at the time) the largest private art gallery in New York. Frick’s rival collector Benjamin Altman, who died in 1913, leaving his holdings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, owned a mansion at 626 Fifth Avenue, in midtown Manhattan, with a long gallery that measured 90 feet. Frick got one of his contacts at Knoedler to find out the dimensions of ...”

“... negatively, as the stereotypical bug-eyed monsters bent on conquering Earth.’ So much for Robert Heinlein’s Star Beast, Brian Aldiss’s The Dark Light-Years, Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and a dozen other classics. Nimoy doesn’t pretend to be a scholar and he is not obliged to research his own historical background. But is there not a ...”

“... literature for another ten years. To be sure, essayists (Hocquenghem in France, Tripp in America, Altman in Australia) had begun in the early Seventies to write theoretical works about homosexuality; but fiction had to wait until 1978 to make a major impact. At that time emerged a new gay fiction which is still flourishing today. The defining characteristics ...”

“... other people’s reactions to her. She was reduced to an object, a thing of pure physicality. Al Altman, who made her screen-test, had seen enough starlets to know that a really beautiful woman was rare indeed, in fact a ‘freak’. The actor Howard Duff described her as the ‘most beautiful thing he had ever seen’. To others, she was ‘an extraordinary ...”