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They were just two little girls enjoying their first-ever unchaperoned trip to Europe. "I danced a gavotte/ I ate an eclair/ I looked for Lee/ But she wasn't there," wrote a lighthearted Jackie Bouvier, 22, while her kid sister Lee, 18, sent home an unblinking commentary on her experiences. Once she encountered an interested Lebanese on the Queen Elizabeth. "Jackie has warned me," wrote Lee, "about the quirks in the sex lives of Near Easterners!!" Then there was the proboscidate Persian who whirled Lee round the dance floor ("The only thing I could see in the whole...
That is just the kind of simpleminded, sentimental statement that acutely embarrasses Plarr. He despises sentimentality, machismo, everything he takes to be sugar-coated human delusion, and all protestations of love or emotion, which are curable, as he puts it, "by means as simple as an orgasm or an eclair." Plarr works devotedly trying to cure the poor in the barrio, and his judicious view of the corruption of the world is presented with such apparent justice and restraint that the reader only gradually ceases to doubt his judgment - a doubt that Plarr at last experiences himself. His pure disgust...
...years--particularly those held by egoists. Even after one term of Nixonism, with another to come. Don Siegel's director cult is still ready to defend Dirty Henry for its mise on scene. Even if the film craze has slowly puttered out, every adolescent artiste still yearns for an Eclair or an Arriflex. The Village Voice has gotten slightly better--it featured some good convention coverage. Andrew Sarris has gotten slightly worse...
...Eclairs & Aquabesques. There are almost innumerable opportunities in this story for a writer to turn cute, but Author Maxwell resists the temptation. He writes about animals and nature as well as anyone in the field, and he is never cloying when he describes how Mij toused like a dog with his favorite rubber eclair, lay endlessly on his back juggling anything that came to paw, or hid underneath the rug and then leaped out like a tiger on the first passerby...
Snub-nosed, bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 7, on leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa...