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Sprayed-On Trousers. Jones' manager, Gordon Mills, has a one-word explanation for the fuss: "Sex." That is accurate enough-and the effect is carefully calculated. When Jones growls through a song in a black, bluesy style, the emotion seems to come more from the throat than the heart. The throat itself is a bit suspect: his keening, virile baritone has an alarming tendency to wobble. What seems to matter to female spectators is the way he writhes to a funky beat, tears off his tie, slashes the air rhythmically with both arms and strains his pelvis and thigh...
...beauty and skill of the inhabitants, are grounds for civic pride (or concern). One year, the town fathers of Wells noted that visitors seemed to be having trouble locating the red-light district, so they helpfully installed directional signs. When reactionary residents of one town kicked up a fuss because a house of ill repute was operating next door to the local school, the town newspaper editorialized: "Don't move the house. Move the school." The school was moved...
...since Pope Paul's birth-control encyclical has a Vatican announcement caused more fuss. A new universal liturgical calendar issued by the Vatican last week dropped or downgraded more than 200 saints-among them such popular figures as St. Christopher, St. Valentine, St. Nicholas, St. George and St. Patrick. Christopher-the giant of a man who, according to legend, earned his way to heaven by carrying the Child Jesus across a raging stream and thus became the patron saint of travelers-met a most ignominious fate. Though his image, emblazoned on medals, statuettes and key rings, has traveled literally...
...FRIEND of Styron's tells me I came on the wrong night. She says there are moments when that quiet struggle rises to the surface. At first, she says, Styron was immensely troubled by attacks on Nat Turner-Styron says he did not anticipate all the fuss. When it came, he had to struggle with it; perhaps there came a point when he decided his attackers were unjust and decided finally to shut himself...
...ideal contraceptive. In addition to its side effects, it has the disadvantage of requiring close calendar watching. Researchers are working strenuously to produce a morning-after pill, a one-a-month pill or a once-a-year injection to achieve the same result with greater certainty and less fuss. What may well be the second generation of oral contraceptives is already undergoing extensive tests...