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...George McGovern and his legions have deeply moved this 30-year-old, city-bred (Los Angeles), Irish Catholic female. The traditional Democrat. Yes, they have moved me completely and passionately to the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon...
...Brooklyn-bred Kimelman, 51, is chairman of the West Indies Corp., the biggest (annual sales: $18 million) import house in the Virgin Islands, his adopted home of more than two decades. As the islands' commissioner of commerce from 1961 to 1964, Kimelman was one of several businessmen who turned the U.S. possession from a sleepy haven of sand and sun into a tourist mecca. Since the islands are one of the two American free ports outside the U.S. (the other: Guam), the business of importing duty-free liquor, perfume and other goodies for tourists has grown fast. Kimelman...
...celebrated Ukiyo-e erotica of the era before the first Westerners arrived more than a century ago. In the 1700s and early 1800s, when the great samurai families ruled the peaceful, isolated island nation, Japanese artists celebrated sex in extraordinarily direct and sensual prints and woodcuts. Every well-bred virgin was given at least one graphically instructive makura-e (pillow picture) as part of her trousseau. "There was no hypocrisy," says Ukiyo-e Scholar Teruji Yoshida. "These artists dealt with the pleasures of sex as matter-of-factly as if they were dealing with other routine pleasures, like those...
...already split the Democrats so badly that they are now in some ways two different parties-the McGovernites and the regulars. The McGovern forces -the young, the suburbanites, the intellectuals, an admixture of some blacks and blue-collar workers-are parvenus to the old party, a new political wave bred in complicated ways by Viet Nam, the assassinations, all the dislocations of the '60s. The others-labor, organization Democrats like Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, elected politicians -tend to have older and firmer roots in the party's traditional structure...
...Ballad of Cable Hogue. Writer-director Sam Peckinpah's best film, a bawdy tragicomedy which epitomizes his oldtimer's vision of the diminishing West and the downfall of the American individualists it bred. Lyrical. With Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice. PUBLIX CINEMA. Ballad...