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...only allegiance to God, the Freedomites are violently defiant of all "worldly" authority, including the Canadian government. To show their disdain for things of the flesh (and reveal a lot of their own at the same time), the Freedomites periodically set fire to their shacks, then stripped to the buff and hurled their clothing into the flames. But then, under the leadership of a hot-eyed fanatic named Peter Lordly Verigin, self-appointed "Son" Stefan Sorokin, and a 240-lb. stripper called "Big Fanny" Storgoff, the Freedomite flames turned outward...
...Health Buff. For most of the time, Lindsay seemed to thrive on his exhausting schedule. Again and again he appeared on television-reasonably clear-eyed and full of confidence-to encourage and inform New Yorkers. One day he spent almost 18 marathon bargaining hours at the Americana in what proved to be a futile hope that a settlement was near. Between the hours devoured by the strike, he discussed with aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found...
...hard to see why the 19th century trail breakers despised Bouguereau (Cézanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed...
Blindman's Buff. At every level, the U.S. is locked in a complex, unpredictable-and brutal-struggle. Last month three U.S. marines and eight South Vietnamese captured by the Viet Cong on a patrol 80 miles southwest of Danang were savagely executed. One American was shot six times in the face at close range. Another's face was hacked beyond recognition with a machete...
...many ways, it is the same kind of fighting-with some local refinements-that G.I.s faced in the island-hopping battles of World War II. It is an interminable blindman's buff that has squads and platoons snaking stealthily along tangled jungle paths, ever fearful of snipers' bullets, ever watchful for the trip wire that might set off a lethal "Bouncing Betty" mine or drive poison-tipped stakes into a man's chest. The big set-piece battles-Chu Lai and Plei Me, Chu Pong and la Drang-were the exceptions, and even they