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...follows the current fad among Italian films of merciless misogyny. The first half is wildly funny, the second half movingly pathetic. These two virtues add up to a fault: after farce, pathos makes a bitter chaser...
...Coping of Kops. Along the line the reader gets a rare insider's view of the outsiders. There is a prevalence of "pornmerchants" (peddlers of pornographic literature). "Kinks" are those with highly specialized sexual aberrations. The fad for Zen among U.S. beatniks is a London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched...
...fairly common fad among ballplayers, who claim that it gives them a better grip on the bat. Other glove-wearers: New York's Roger Maris, Baltimore's Jackie Brandt, Boston's Frank Malzone...
...edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
Since the fad images of today are the square, the splotch and the soup can, it may seem that the only painters working with landscape are those daubing billboards to hide it. One who does not think that landscapes are old-fashioned is Jane Wilson, 39, a slim, chic former fashion mannequin who is personally as modern and vivacious as a girl in a Pepsi-Cola ad. Her recent landscapes and even newer cityscapes, which went on display last week at Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery, are suffused with such sunny fragrance that the New York Times...