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...arrested 123 performers and members of the audience. The pineapple estate was a clandestine Communist Party school where young students, all of them Singapore or Malaysian Chinese, lived, studied and were taught the arts of subversion. The place was well stocked with propaganda material, including a beribboned Red Guard doll. From captured documents and prisoners' confessions, the authorities pieced together an ominous picture of the growing Communist presence in Malaysia, the conglomerate of former British territories in Southeast Asia...
YOUR OWN THING slides Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the 20th century with multimedia effects, rock music and the unisex look of the with-it generation. Leland Palmer lends rag-doll insouciance to a perpetual-motion Viola...
...they parade by the camera in a transvestite beauty . pageant. More of them are on the way to neighborhood screens. Staircase, a play about two aging male lovers has been bought by 20th Century-Fox; The Killing of Sister George, a tragicomedy concerning a tweedy lesbian and her baby-doll companion, is now being filmed by Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) in London. Oscar Winner Rod Steiger's next big film, The Sergeant, is about a homosexual G.I. who re-enlists to get closer to the boys. CBS Films this month announced that it has bought the rights...
...Clief, illustrated by Kenneth Longtemps (Funk & Wagnalls; $2.95). It is the hottest day of the year in New York City, too hot to do anything, so hot that Carrie puts ice cubes in her bath. But at nightfall, Jack Frost comes out of hiding, and Carrie and her doll, Loretta Cecelia, and all the other people in New York awake next morning to find everything covered with a blanket of snow. The story is unusually long, but the illustrations are captivating...
Nabokov lingers over the coincidence of the encounter, but his timing is nearly perfect. By drawing it out, he sharpens the anticipation of the impending adultery; before long, Martha, the frosty doll, and Franz, promoted from lifeless lump to "warm and pliant wax," can't get enough of each other...