Room for Improvement
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Photo-story from Janus 83 featuring lovely Page 3 girl Vida Garman as Dulcie. Pushing a broom. Dulcie in overalls. Tat. Sweat. Hair tied back with a scrappy ribbon. The floorboards and walls are bare. Stark. He will bark at me: ‘Work!’ He looks through the door into the room. Sees her stooping, lacklustrely prodding the bristles against the floor. Poor! Idle! What are muscles and sinews for? A roar: ‘Put some effort into it!’ He marches in and stands severe behind her ‘You’re not even trying! I get the impression you hardly care! But you’d better, my girl — oh, you’d better!’ She reapplies herself to her task, leans down, shoves the broom a little harder. Having him standing there like that, acutely critical of her every movement, makes her legs feel watery and her whole self cumbersome and clumsy. Under his censorious glare Dulcie strives to do what she feels is her best, making little grunting sounds to show hi...