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Down to a Fig Leaf. One reason for the protests was Sharef's poor timing. Just as he spoke, the drive toward a Middle East peace settlement seemed to be gaining momentum. U.N. Mediator Gunnar Jarring, criticized for acting like a "mailman" whose only role was to shunt messages back and forth, began to ask probing questions of Egypt and Israel. Among them: Would Israel withdraw from Sinai in exchange for a formal peace treaty? Would Egypt recognize Israel in return for withdrawal? Egypt's President Anwar Sadat responded to Jarring's overtures by promising...
...beauty of its structure. A poem without structure, on a trivial theme, has no hope from the beginning. Thus, the first half of a poem from this volume: "dicketydicketydick / dicketydicketydick / click / priorities goals directions / smile solemnly see direction A / click / great country endeavor great leadership / inspirational fist follow fig. 2 / click / . . . " Such a poem, lacking content and a cohesive style, is hardly a poem at all. It depends for its survival, not on intrinsic merit of interest, but on currency. It makes no generic statement, just a personal snipe, and does this in a thoroughly forgettable form...
...PSYCHIATRIST told me recently that contemporary culture has moved the fig leaf from the genitals to the face. With his new film Meyer has gone against his own grain. His Valkyries have lost much of thier sexual authority and at times in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...
Where indeed? His brother Jerry, the sharpshooting Doppelganger of their nightclub act, calls Wayne (chuckle): "Fig." However obvious, Fig Newton is appropriate. Newton's style is sticky, his humor is seedy, and he is wrapped in dough. He is also astonishingly successful. Beginning with that enduring blob of Teutonic treacle, Danke Schoen, he has two gold records to his credit. He gets as much as $75,000 a week in nightclubs and holds the alltime attendance records at the Royal Box in New York's Americana Hotel, Las Vegas' Frontier Hotel and Melodyland in Anaheim, Calif...
...neck up it is David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...