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...opulent couture outfits cost $2,000 to $10,000, while less elaborate ready-to-wear versions, which will be available at the Saint Laurent boutiques, will run customers well over $1,000. At the same time, the impracticality of the huge multilayered skirts may confound all but the most dauntless of Saint Laurent's private clients. "It's gorgeous but it's unwearable," complained one buyer. Said a rich client, "I buy clothes to travel, and with this collection it is one dress for one suitcase. This may bring back the steamer trunk...
...moment--in the Paris metro, on an Acapulco beach--wherever she could prop a notebook, with an unusual felicity for sifting and sorting incidents barely finished. Most of us don't venture beyond the word "nothing" in summing up our day, but Anais reports her contacts and conversations with dauntless agility. Like Miller, she has discovered that unabashed observers fascinate people because they've learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim the surface off life itself; when one person catalogues life's vicissitudes, he jolts many others out of an unwitting stupor. Nin laments our cultivated numbness...
...Gavras' other work (Z, The Confession), is angry all right, and with cause, but it is also unnecessarily emphatic, too easy and simplistic, and stylistically jazzy past the point of stridency. His movies are like glossy international versions of Dragnet, with a rather different political bias. Like the dauntless Jack Webb, Costa-Gavras employs a sort of arhythmic, staccato editing and prominent, even aggressive music (by Mikis Theodorakis) to punch the movie along, giving it a kind of spurious suspense. His characters are mouthpieces, not people, repositories of conflicting political attitudes. In State of Siege they lack only conventioneers...
...satirical revue consists of topical skits done in the style of old vaudeville, neobur-lesque, superior college humor, and the antic, abrasive tradition of Lenny Bruce. Many one-liners flick at their subjects with rapid deflationary humor: "In times of stress, remember the Pueblo." A drug raid is announced: dauntless police have just "seized two ounces of marijuana with a street value...
...Service. Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached...