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While cheap "nudie" movies are branching out into torture and lesbianism in a desperate attempt to keep a few steps below Hollywood, the far-out new wave in New York and San Francisco is also creating a cinema of sorts; such "underground" films as Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures and Andy Warhol's Couch feature transvestite orgies with masturbation and other frills-although they seem even more concerned with an almost narcotic attack on the concept of time, since most of them are interminable...
Finally, last week, the huge plane began to live up to the far-out name by which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
Designer André Courrèges, by contrast, showed a collection that was more like a countdown, with models' hair cropped to the cranium, their faces often masked behind huge white plastic goggles, and a display of far-out fashions that swung down the runways to the way-in beat of progressive jazz. As befits the designer who is known as the idea man of the Paris collections, Courrèges came through with eye-poppers aplenty-flesh-colored leotards beneath embroidered net slacks, ten-gallon hats, skirts cut three inches above the knee-gimmicky, but none of them...
...able to provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas), wolves, wild pigs, electric eels, baby crocodiles and iguanas...
Textured stockings are nothing new (noblemen and chorus girls have worn them for centuries), but only in the past year have they become more than an occasional lark for a far-out coed or a conversation piece for a starlet in need. Now, to the yé yé sounds of the Frug and the Monkey and the fashions that dance along (high high boots, short short skirts and cut-out shoes), manufacturers are moving fast to get them on the counters again...