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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Films scarcely interest her. She appeared in Alfie, playing the frumpish, pathetic housewife who gets an abortion, and she has a role in the forthcoming Pinter adaptation of Nicholas Mosley's novel, Accident. But that is the limit of her movie career, because she grew tired of the endless retakes. In one scene in Alfie, Michael Caine is called upon to slap her. "I was hit and hit all day long," she recalls, "until by the end of the afternoon my face was swollen out to here...
Chiang is also preparing his government for whatever may come. At a time when Red China is mired in economic troubles along with its seemingly endless series of purges, he and his lieutenants are quietly building Asia's strongest government, its second strongest economy (after Japan) and, despite 17 years of exile, an esprit that somehow continues to embody the tenuous dream of mainland recovery. To improve the government, Chiang recently called for "new policies" and "modernized governmental mechanisms." In an obvious dig at Peking's harangues about "revisionism," he is also pushing a "revision" of the Kuomintang...
...pupils from her class likely to be tested. This, Carnegie contends, means that no "invidious comparisons" would result, and no teacher would be under pressure to "teach for the tests." But the broad-brush group results could provide some facts which might help resolve the endless arguments on how well, or poorly, the schools are doing...
...American university students are ignorant in the extreme. They do not know who Marx was or what the world situation is like. Furthermore, they basically do not dare to inquire about politics. The United States is a country full of secret agents. There, political persecution is perpetrated in an endless stream. Whoever utters the slightest sound of discontent is immediately suspected as a Communist. In that country a student, once tinged with "red," is unable to continue his studies--much less, to graduate. His relatives and friends will keep away from him. His fate is thus sealed...
...Determined Hanging. Much of Pascin's life was a Sisyphean search for satiation. He decorated his endless parties with nude girls, recalls one writer, "as one might place flowers in a vase." Under his perennial black derby, he was sensuously ugly, with heavy features that had the thick texture of Dromedary dates. As he began to age, his art more and more portrayed the image of an old man teased by willing sprites. Only fetishes could further inflame his nudes; lesbian poses and green stockings added a salacious veneer to his final fleshy visions...