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...have Mme. Nhu as the "Dragon Lady," the compleat villainess. If we are again duped by the Communists because of this prejudice, if we are hoodwinked out of Viet Nam because of dislike for this woman, then immolation by fire would be too good for all who slant the news for the sake of good copy...
...Compleat Angler. Nonetheless, Gromyko trusts "Milord" Home enough to converse with him in English when they are alone, and Soviet admirers dubbed him respectfully the "Western Mo'otov." Laborites accused him of being rigidly antiCommunist, but Home was always ready to negotiate problems when he thought that there was any hope. When dealing with the Russians, said Compleat Angler Home, "I go trying for a fish. If nothing bites, I go back the next day. If a small fish bites, I go after a bigger...
Then I Attack. "I play what I feel is needed," says Makim Touré, a Guinean disquaire at Paris' King Club who plays his twin turntables with all the grace and flamboyance of a 19th century concert pianist. When too many dancers take the floor in France, the compleat disquaire strikes them into their chairs by playing a French song-recurrent proof of the popular theory that Frenchmen hate their own music. To liven things up, disquaires turn to Ray Charles or a hully-gully by The Cookies...
...space capsule, Vostok VI, "Valya" was still the compleat Soviet woman. Her space suit was embroidered with a snow-white dove, and she had had her hair done before blastoff. Once a tomboy, she now has an admitted weakness for spike heels, stylish clothes, and a perfume called Red Moscow. From space she radioed ground control: "Please tell Mamma not to worry." Once, when ground scientists lost contact with "Seagull" (Valya's orbital call name), they hastily ordered her cosmic companion in Vostok V, Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, to try and rouse her. "Sorry, I was having...
...Slim Summerville." But in three overworked decades and some 70 overwrought roles, Bette earned two Oscars, $3,000,000. and a reputation as the first U.S.-born actress to make the movie moguls respect talent and independence in a star. In an age of vamps, she became the Compleat Vixen. But in this autobiography, Bette can (and does) brag: "I brought more people into theatres than all the sexpots put together...