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Almost any spy thriller, properly dust-jacketed, can sell a few thousand copies to the cloak-and-dagger addicts; the truly great ones have an intangible extra quality of atmosphere that broadens their appeal and propels them up the bestseller lists. Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector...
...Angostura Bitters has begun pushing an 007 drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda and two dashes of bitters-served, naturally, in a Baccarat highball glass. . For younger Bondsmen, Multiple Products plans to market a toy attache case, complete with a four-piece toy sniper rifle, plastic dagger, decoding machine and a "searchproof" lock that, if tampered with, triggers a cap-firing device. Last week Roulette released a new rock'n'roll recording, Double-O-Seven, the lament of a young man whose "baby went and fell in love with Double-OSeven...
...picked up Detective Maline and drove him to a luncheonette. They parked and got out of the car. When they returned, they found a key in the car, with a note directing Maline to the Trailways bus station and locker 0911. Then, in the finest traditions of cloak-and-dagger-manship, the driver reportedly stuffed the note into his mouth and swallowed...
...white woman, has the gift for projecting his fantasy life directly onto a stage. His chief fantasy is retaliation. In these plays, the Negro has the gun. He gives the orders, he slugs, he kills, he wins. Dramatically, the virtue of this is that action follows idea like a dagger thrust without the shadow of explanations, descriptions and rationalizations that fall on drama like a blight...
...from London is the redoutable Jean Littlewood's satirical revue Oh What a Lovely War (at the Broadhurst). The material is not newly minted, but drawn from actual records, memoirs and recollections of World War I. It's an evening of music and laughs, but every joke carries a dagger. Performing in this quasi-Brechtian production is a large and able British company headed by Victor Spinetti, Barbara Windsor, Murray Melvin, and Brian Murphy...