Word: beachful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...letters, Cooke uses an artfully constructed rambling style, both to preserve the informality of a personal letter and also to cram a maximum of information, anecdotes, and observations into a five-minute broadcast. One piece begins with a breezy description of the development of Palm Beach Florida--a quiet retreat which, Cooke sadly notes, was created by and for "the fastidiousness of the very rich" not by the act of the legislature, as would befit the U.S.'s democratic pretensions. This is only a prelude to the core of the talk, where Cooke sketches, in only two pages, the strange...
JUNE WILSON BALDWIN Virginia Beach...
...Varadero International: Bring a bathing suit, because Varadero Beach, a 15-mile-long ribbon of white sand, is magnificent. Passengers on Eastern Flight 73 were berthed here. They were allowed to go swimming. They were also fed a free meal (appetizer, roast beef, rice, salad, dessert) while two Cuban bands played bossa nova and blues in the background...
Gary's camera can barely take its eye off Seberg lying naked on a beach at dawn, surrounded by symbolically dead birds and sated, unconscious males; or being caressed by a Lesbian brothel-keeper; or struggling vainly for sexual fulfillment in the bed of a handsome hermit. The scenes are not remotely erotic. This is partly because Seberg is not much of an actress, partly because Gary is not much of a director, and partly because no taint of reality has been permitted to obtrude; whether she is on the beach or in bed, nary a hair...
...Dares. "Ken was doing psychedelic colorings before anyone even knew what psychedelic was all about," says Manhattan Fashion Illustrator Joe Eula. "Nobody dares to put color next to color the way he does." Scott also anticipated the Bonnie and Clyde look back in 1963, with clunky shoes and floppy beach pajamas. He was an early advocate of "unisex," designing his-and-her matching pants suits two years...