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...Shot in the Dark and The Pink Panther, Gallic gumshoe Jacques Clouseau was played by Peter Sellers with his overfamiliar banana-peel approach to comedy. In Inspector Clouseau, Arkin follows meticulously in his predecessor's flatfootsteps, but the result is only a parody of a parody...
Isle of Youth. Concern for agriculture has benefited the historically deprived campesino, who now enjoys free education and health care. He may soon lose his freedom, however. The government is building a huge banana plantation on the south coast, which will be a step toward its massive effort at colonizing and communizing farms. Helping the effort are Young Communist Work Camps, where boys go for two years to combine party indoctrination with agriculture and schooling...
...origin of the wine's restorative power is being called into question: Ferrari wine, charged the prosecution, is artificial. Police cited a variety of recipes for making such concoctions, listing such unlikely ingredients as tar acid, ammonia, glycerin, zinc sulphate, seaweed, banana paste, citric acid, lactic acid, a pungent liquid dredged from the bottom of banana boats, and ox's blood. The prosecution also said that illegal chemical substances and hidden vats of artificial wine were seized at the Ferrari plants...
Shadow Play. In many cases, the options in Milwaukee are simply yes or no decisions. Gallerygoers, for instance, have a choice of contemplating Andy Warhol's peeled version of a silk-screened banana, or admiring the unpeeled one. Or they can stoke Robert Watts's Stamp Machine with either nickels or dimes. (Having been removed from daily use to the higher realms of art in 1963, Watts has replaced its now outdated U.S. Government stamps with stamps of his own design.) They can strum the weird musical instruments of Francois and Bernard Baschet, but the atonal sounds evoked...
...seemingly, a favorite pastime in today's world, and the people from other countries who do it forget or ignore their own past. One need not enumerate the bloody history of England or France, the revolution of 1917 in Russia, the conquistadores of Spain, the banana republics of Latin America, the wars of independence in Africa, the dynastic wars in China, the long conflicts in Europe, to establish such an obvious truth...