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Homebodies is plotted out and done up with competence, so it does not look like the usual sleazy horror flick. For a yarn like this to work at all, though, the elfin imagination of a John Collier or Roald Dahl is indispensable. The authors and director of Homebodies have no such...
French politics has rarely seen the equivalent of what is universally known as "the Jobert phenomenon." The elfin, acerbic Jobert was unknown outside the shadows of power less than two years ago, but already his new party, the Movement of Democrats, has an impressive total of 140 clubs around the nation. Jobert, who currently holds no government post, looks like a candidate running hard for office, even though it is 6½ years before the next presidential election and three years before the next scheduled vote for the National Assembly. During one barnstorming day last week, Jobert shook hands...
Died. Haj Amin el Husseini, 80, fanatic former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem; of a heart ailment; in Beirut. Haj Amin, whose elfin, almost angelic appearance concealed a wily, often ruthless nature, joined the British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and in 1921 was made Mufti (a jurist who interprets Moslem religious law), in effect leader, of Palestine's Arabs. He then turned against the British, beginning a long career of violent opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile...
...preferred the quiet domestic life-skiing and pack trips with Pierre, caring for their sons Justin, 2½, and Sacha, six months-but decided after Trudeau's near-defeat in 1972 that this time she should take a more active campaign role. Lately Margaret, with her elfin smile and insouciant ways, has been wowing crowds from Quebec to British Columbia-delivering informal talks in English and French, balancing on stilts for delighted children, and frolicking in a bikini for photographers at a motel pool. At a salmon barbecue in Vancouver, she introduced her husband to 1,500 whooping partisans...
...summary, such goings-on may sound hopelessly elfin, self-indulgent or absurd. But Jones' surrealist fragments produce in the reader's mind the same edgy excitement and slight disorientation that a suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl...