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...STEVENSON WIT (RCA Victor) consists of excerpts from the speeches, press conferences and off-the-cuff remarks of the late ambassador, strung together with remarks by David Brinkley. Though Stevenson's wit was warm and enlightening, he was not a comic, and to isolate his jokes from the eloquent purposes they served does him no great service and gives the listener little sustenance...
...André Gide pointed out long ago from personal experience, there are several varieties of homosexuals that the heterosexual world lumps together but that "feel an irrepressible loathing for one another." Today in the U.S., there are "mixed" bars where all homosexuals, male and female, are persona grata; "cuff-linky" bars that cater to the college and junior-executive type; "swish" bars for the effeminates and "hair fairies" with their careful coiffures; "TV" bars, which cater not to television fans but to transvestites; "leather" bars for the tough-guy types with their fondness for chains and belts; San Francisco...
...that is going to change, said Mobutu, and it suddenly became clear why he wore no tunic. Pop went the button on one shirt cuff as he told the Congolese to "roll up your sleeves, strip off your ties and get to work." Pop went the button on his other cuff as his bug-eyed audience began to realize that he meant them to follow suit. "Roll 'em up," Mobutu called to the uproarious crowd. "You too!" he shouted to his assembled Cabinet ministers, who sheepishly followed orders...
...clip can be used as a cuff link, as a substitute for a lost eyeglass screw, or as a short-timer's chain (remove one per day till discharge...
Furriers are even cutting capers with the traditional mink. Bergdorf Goodman's Emeric Partos punches holes in white mink coats, fills them with dark mink. Kaplan, who jazzes up his regular ranch-mink coats with shirt-cuff sleeves and double-breasted brass buttons, features a striking horizontally worked white mink with three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When...