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...Beguiled, a witches' brew of Ambrose Bierce and Carson McCullers, is set in a rundown Louisiana finishing school toward the end of the Civil War. A ten-year-old student named Amy (Pamelyn Ferdin), stumbles on a gravely wounded Union soldier (Clint Eastwood). Instead of turning him over to a Confederate patrol, the girls and their two teachers (Geraldine Page and Elizabeth Hartman) nurse the trooper to health. The gently held prisoner coolly plays off his jailers against each other, hinting marriage to one teacher, making advances toward the other, titillating students. When his duplicity is uncovered, The Beguiled...
...yourself still feel sweaty, even as you watch someone afterwards slipping into her leather culottes. And you still feel tired out even passing a little group of dancers sipping a vegetarian brew in the gym office. And you still even feel pleased, but you really wonder if it will last, when, for sure, you'll fall on your ass on the ice, running home...
...Bitches Brew; 2 LPs (Columbia). With this heady, often shattering sonic fusion of rock's electronics and the classic avant-garde's aleatory atonalism, Trumpeter Miles Davis shakes jazz to its roots...
...campaign seemed an ill-concocted brew of partisan bile. Much of it was politics-as-usual, but the last spurt of violence and anger -coupled with Nixon's bellicose rejoinder-took it sharply beyond the ordinary. Anti-Administration members of Congress who survive the elections may return to Capitol Hill less inclined than ever to give Nixon an even break, especially as 1972 approaches. Quite possibly the broader political irritations will subside, as they traditionally do after a campaign. But for the present, the 1970 electoral battling left the land still more riven than it was before the skirmishing...
...scared not to read Women's Wear. We are influenced by it?everybody in fashion is." So are some 10,000 other readers outside the industry, who are fascinated by WWD's piquant brew of gossip, profiles, trendy tips and incisive reviews. Eleanor Lambert, fashion's foremost publicist, is no particular fan of Women's Wear, and vice versa. Still, she feels that the paper "has the same impact as Walter Winchell once did. Winchell humanized the theater and let people see glimpses of human foible behind the scenes. Women's Wear has done the same to fashion. The press...