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...hero of Touches is a 43-year-old college English teacher named Jeff Cooper who is fretting about a full professorship. Jeff (Robert Lansing) comes home from the classroom one day and tells his wife Katy (Barbara Bel Geddes) that he is falling in love with a nubile student. Being the rare wife who is the first to know does not prevent Katy from being cataclysmically shaken by her husband's startling don't-kiss-but-tell confession. Bel Geddes beautifully conveys outward bravado and inner terror...
...Dunhill Records, which he sold to ABC in 1966 for $3 million. Current label boasts Carole King, Comedy Duo Cheech and Chong and $400,000 new album of Tommy that has earned back $5 million. Dabbles in California real estate, currently dates Actress Britt Eklund. Has houses in Malibu, Bel Air and Jamaica, rises in morning with organic coffee, dresses in bell-bottoms and Jesus sandals. Lincolnesque in bearing and probity...
Shrewd as he is on most business dealings, even Carlsberg can come out second best in some real estate matters. Convinced that the $18,000 annual property-tax bill on his palatial marble-columned home in Bel Air was too steep, he recently paid a visit to the tax assessor to complain. After looking into the matter, the assessor agreed that there was an error; he raised Carlsberg's bill...
...guarded during holidays by light antiaircraft guns. Everywhere the streets in the overcrowded city teem with people, many of them politely but persistently hawking goods or guide services to any tourist in sight. Port-au-Prince also has more than its share of slums, which bear elegant names like Bel Air, Poste Marchand and Leclerc but often have open sewage ditches running through them...
...Bel canto opera puts everyone to the test, including the audience. Norma, for example, is one of those static abstracts that-like most neo-Roman architecture-more often command respect than love. That Sutherland, Capobianco and Designer José Verona could infuse it with any passion at all was testimony to the peculiar alchemy of opera when it is defying both the gods and the arts...