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...founder gave voice to that fear. Last week blood flowed again as the world's fifth most populous nation (130 million), divided between a wheat-growing West with tall, light-skinned people and a rice-growing East with short dark-skinned people, moved ominously toward a breakup-or a civil...
...suit to dissolve the Apple Corps is carrying the Beatles' breakup to new levels of dissonance. In his deposition, Ringo Starr called Paul McCartney, who brought the suit, "a spoiled child" and described a row about the release date of the Beatles album Let It Be and that of the solo album, McCartney. "To my dismay, he went completely out of control," said Ringo, "shouting at me, pointing his finger toward my face, shouting 'I'll finish you now!' and 'You'll pay!' " Said John Lennon: "From our earliest days in Liverpool, George...
...psychosis and interchange of identity, was given an entirely new introductory scene and thereby converted into a trite tale of domestic friction. And British Director Peter Hall, after a similar experience with Three Into Two Won't Go, is still smarting. The film, he says, "was about the breakup of a marriage so dishonest it needed breaking up. The crisis was provoked by the husband's affair with a young hitchhiker. Universal's new picture is about a probation officer's search for a girl who has broken her parole. They even added a happy ending...
...couple. Los Angeles Psychiatrist L. James Grold says that it can become a troublesome addiction, but that for some people it is "a pleasurable sharing experience." Bartell doubts that swinging really benefits anyone much. Surprisingly, he found little evidence that it was responsible for marital discord or breakup among the couples he studied. In fact, some swingers insist that the opposite is true. Their claim: "The couple that swings together stays together...
Around that time, the Beatles broke up, mostly because Paul couldn't get along with the others, but perhaps also because they sensed their own growing irrelevance. In 1970, we did not need the Beatles as much as we had in 1967. Since the breakup, they have released five albums as individuals, the worst of which is ridiculous and the rest of which, while not bad, remain decidedly tangential to our lives...