Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Burton, once an actor, now performs mainly as a buffoon. In his latest exercise in melodrama, he even permits himself to be outfitted in a sort of jester's motley: outrageous mustard-colored blazer and lavender-trimmed evening clothes. His chin whiskers seem to have been dipped in a vat of Lady Clairol, so his blue beard is colored like a pair of muddy policeman's pants. All that is needed to complete the costume is cap and bells...
...keep the kids? Hefner thinks that he knows. Enter, early in September, the first issue of his now, new monthly Oui. "We have a Playboy philosophy," Hefner told TIME Correspondent Burton Pines, "but I don't expect that there will be a Oui philosophy. Oui will concentrate on the joy of living, while Playboy concentrates a tremendous amount of space on social problems . . . Playboy is still me, but Oui not so much. In a way Playboy was my son, but Oui is a grandchild...
...nature of the West-little water and enormous stretches of arid soil-makes it impossible to support the continued migration. Legislators, scientists and citizens are now openly concerned about the threat of "Californication"-the haphazard, mindless development that has already gobbled up most of Southern California. TIME Correspondent Sandra Burton recently spent two weeks traveling throughout the West, taking the measure of Californication and the attempts being made to stop it. Her report...
British colonialism has produced a remarkable assortment of fruits and nuts, notably Lawrence of Arabia. But there have also been magnificent blossoms. Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century linguist and imperialist advance man, was an entire garden of delights. Gerald Hanley, the novelist and screenwriter (The Blue Max), is no Burton, although at one point in this memoir he claims to have succeeded where Burton failed-in discovering the secret of Wabaio, a potent arrow poison...
...Burton had found a century earlier, the Somalis are among the bravest, vainest, crudest and also friendliest races in Africa. They possess enormous self-respect. Somalis love to fight, set great store in a killing well done, and do not mind dying. Hanley recalls coming upon a Somali who had just finished butchering a fellow tribesman. He expressed anxiety only when he realized that Hanley was not going to shoot him on the spot. "You're not going to start all that court business, are you?" asked the murderer as he was led away...