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...target of the wild frustrations of a psychopath−"the kind of sullen person who broods in rooming houses," in the striking phrase of Democratic Presidential Candidate Morris Udall. The news of Ford's near escape from death made the current presidential candidates, avowed or coy, even more apprehensive, but they were saying little about their concerns in public...
...Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn romance. For the time being the couple are acting coy about another wedding. At the moment, said a friend, marriage "is a very private matter for Mr. Burton and Miss Taylor to decide...
...rhythm and blues with a strong Latin beat. "It's like a status thing," says petite New Yorker Chachi Downs, 25. "If you don't know how to do it, you're out of it." The Hustle's biggest boost nationwide came from Van Me Coy's The Hustle, which has made the national charts for an extraordinary 18 weeks. Other popular Hustle records include Loggins & Messina's Pathway to Glory, Consumer Rapport's Ease On Down the Road (from the Broadway musical The Wiz), Herbie Mann's Hijack and Ester Phillips...
...Coy Puns. The casting of Lynn Redgrave as the titular heroine is one clue to this light direction. Redgrave is long of leg and spunky, and does an amusing accent, sort of a delicatessen Dutch. She also narrates the film and dispenses some of the screenwriters' coy puns. One reminiscence begins with "Long before they could call me madam . . ." Other putatively funny episodes involve a striptease performed in the board room of a large corporation before a chairman dressed in tie, pinstripes and undershorts and a wealthy fetishist who enjoys an exotic combination of leather, a barking...
...unfortunately, Exley had run out of steam, or at least material. All of his best thoughts and experiences are in Notes, and for all its attempts at coy humor and shocking candor, Pages from a Cold Island is without substance. Perhaps to compensate, or to fill the cold pages. Exley turned to a self-indulgent approach full of distracting asides which reduce Pages to a book about writing the book...