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...sexual intercourse in a coming play? That a recording of the national anthem played in Chicago Stadium was so bad that 5,700 basketball fans were unable to repress giggles? That some Saigon soothsayers claim that President Diem died because canal diggers had chopped off the head of a dragon guarding his father's grave? The unlikely answer, as many of its more than 1,000,000 readers could verify, is the Wall Street Journal. It included those tidbits in recent front-page "leaders," the long, unhurried, magazinelike stories that make the Journal one of the nation...
...inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary Ure). She is a sort of Green Berette, a combination of Mata Hari, Annie Oakley and the Dragon Lady...
...shouts a group of men in turtleneck sweaters as they start to beat the puppet's swollen belly. Out from the puppet's innards steps a shapely brunette in a bathing costume who announces that she is "Capitalism." Soon a 30-foot-long white-and-green-colored dragon winds its way through the gasping audience. "The Communists are coming-Help! Help!" shriek the onstage characters as they watch the approaching dragon. A puppet king, Vittorio Emanuele, pushes forward the shapely brunette in the bathing costume. "Only you, sweet Capitalism, can save us," he says. The dragon growls ferociously...
Personal Revolution. The last act becomes participatory theater as actors and audience debate the significance of the play. Says one speaker from the stage: "Fellow workers, you must rise and fight the bosses. You are like the Communist dragon-seduced by the comfort that Capitalism offers you as a bribe to keep quiet. But refrigerators and TV sets won't solve your problems-only the revolution can give you the strength and human dignity denied the working class so long." In the village of Vignola, the audience was so aroused by this argument that a group called for flags...
...face, radiating energy, calms the mountainous waves." The theme of Tempest is repeated in miniature form-as the entwined lovers on the Bay of Naples-on one of the seven swanskin fans. On another, Kokoschka inscribed the Alma of the Alpine mural, adding himself as St. George fighting the dragon. Today Kokoschka refers to the fans as "love letters in pictures...