Word: far-out
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...lack of guts, thinks Jack Hanson, owner of the celebrated California-based Jax women's sportswear boutiques, that has held men back until now. Says he: "The problem is that so many male homosexuals have always dressed far-out that other men are afraid of being identified as one." Evidently Hanson believes that the old fear is fading, for he has just opened a Jax for Men boutique in Beverly Hills...
...flighty drag is Vidal's stylish and erudite sense of humor, his sharp pokes at intellectually provocative themes, and his spoofing of literary forms: the book, he says, is really "a send-up on the nouvelle roman." In that vein, he offers metaphor after metaphor based upon far-out late-show conceits ("I whispered like Phyllis Thaxter in Thirty Seconds over Tokyo"). And he makes it Myra's thesis that the flicks of 1931 to 1945, if not the high point of Western culture, were certainly the most formative influence upon anyone who came of age during that...
...trial at Buddhist living was the latest experiment in learning at California's far-out, freedom-loving Pacific High School. A private school ten miles south of Palo Alto (tuition is scaled to income, averages $900 a term), Pacific High tries to stimulate youths who found conventional education too restrictive or boring with the tempting lure of total freedom. Students choose their own hours, classes and teachers and even sit on the board of trustees. At the end of a course, they get gentle advisory evaluations rather than grades -and are encouraged to tell their teachers precisely what they...
With a memorably unpronounceable title that sounds rather like the medical diagnosis of an awful disease, Metastaseis & Pithoprakta was named after two works by far-out Greek-born Composer lannis Xenakis, 45. Each member of the orchestra has a totally different part, and the resulting sounds are more like electronic than man-made music-a succession of crepitations, squeaks, creaks and mutterings, punctuated by sudden rifle-like reports...
...nation's racial problems." When trouble threatens, Rap is rushed to the spot to deliver inflammatory harangues. Then the Senate can blame the riots on "outside agitators" and avoid spending any money on the slums. A year ago, wrote Baker, a theater script had been rejected as too far-out because it had Khrushchev's nephew defecting to the U.S. and joining the John Birch Society. But life outdid art. "Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. and joined Sam Levenson and Elia Kazan in the society of bestsellers...