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...like Apollonia, is one of Zoli's exotics. She is English, a former art student with a flamboyant figure (dress designers, she says, "were always strapping my breasts down") and an eye on an acting career. Modeling?she is this year's Lincoln Mercury girl and Revlon Scoundrel perfume girl???pays the bills nicely but does not interest her much. At 23, she lives in Los Angeles, and has so far appeared in two horror films, Terror Eyes and Bump in the Night. Brooke Shields, she says, arching her willowy neck, "is a rotten actress...
...Margaret gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl???an instant family that her friends cite as the ultimate in efficiency. Mark went to Harrow and is now the representative of an Australia-based freight company. His sister Carol studied law at London University and has been working in Australia as a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. She returned to London in time for the last weeks of the campaign...
...more proof be needed, then the scene on the bench facing the Verrazano Bridge is the clincher. Travolta speaks of the building of the bridge, all its specifications and statistics, like a man surveying an escape route from Brooklyn he is not sure he can ever take. His girl???the one he has been trying unsuccessfully to put the make on?hears the longing and the edge of desperation in his voice and kisses him on the cheek. He makes no move toward her, does not, in fact, even look at her. His eyes are full, and he is crying...
Later, Coles admits, things can change. "The world's restrictions become decisive antagonists to the boy or girl???saying 'no' to them about everything, teaching them to transform those refusals into a judgment of their worth as individuals and as citizens." The point is eloquently put by one mother: "I don't know how to keep my kids from getting stained and ruined by everything outside. They are alive, and then they quit. I can tell it by their walk and how they look. They slow down and get so tired in their face, and they get all full...
Commented the "floozy," Taxi-dancer Salo: "I bet his old wife's tickled to death he has to go back. ... A nice girl???I don't think. . . . I'm in love with some one else right...