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...theme of the book is Heinlein's version of how to be a woman. It would be presumptous of me to attempt to analyze this; perhaps, if it were worth it, a woman could deal with it. But the male chauvinism in it is so overt, so crude, and so disgusting that it is hard to imagine anyone being influenced by it. What is distressing is that this seems not to be merely the newest of his absurd philosophical stances. Judging by the construction of the rest of the work, it would seem, rather, that Heinlein's mind...
...effort has centered mainly on Mexico and Turkey, where the poppies that are converted into morphine base grow in abundance, and on France, where gangsters in "laboratories" around Marseille refine crude morphine into heroin, which is then smuggled into the U.S. The U.S., for example, has given Mexico $1,000,000 for the purchase of five helicopters, three light aircraft and other equipment to be used specifically to detect and catch violators. Dogs have been trained to sniff out marijuana. Since last October, the Mexican army has sought out and destroyed a total of 1,450 acres of poppy fields...
...fire and explosion at Chevron Oil Co.'s Platform Charlie, 30 miles off the Louisiana coast (TIME, April 13), caused the worst offshore oil-well spill in history. For three weeks, a dozen underwater wells spewed up to 1,000 bbl. a day of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, creating a 50-sq.-mi. slick. The Government accused Chevron, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of California, of failing to install legally mandatory storm chokes and other safety gear that would have shut off the wells when the platform exploded. Last week, in U.S. district court...
...book's best sections deal with Hollywood. Southern's sideswipes are nearly as crude as his characters and just as exuberant. His ear for trade talk is perfect. The book bristles with monstros, nifties and thesps used, but never overused, at moments of shattering incongruity. Though he really has no new targets, Southern can skewer venality- as Producer Sid would put it- seven ways to Sunday...
Like many ancient crafts, pure farce disappeared long ago; it was replaced by the machine-tooled "sitcom" or by crude, graffiti-black comedy. But British Playwright Joe Orton was not a man to ride a trend. In the '60s he wrote a cycle of extravagant farces, most of them failures on and off Broadway. Orton would not bow to the times, but circumstances eventually bent to him. His last play, What the Butler Saw, is now an off-Broadway smash. The American stage production of Entertaining Mr. Sloane lasted only 13 performances; the film version is a savagely witty...