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...Marjoe maintains, he could not have been held accountable for his acts, although he admists never to have believed at any time in the truthfulness of what he was doing. The movement attracted him with its glitter and the limelight t assured him. What Marjoe does not acknowledge is the relation between his craving for attention and the cruelty of his mother, who dunked his head underwater or smothered him with a pillow to insure that her young "gimmick" memorized his allegedly God inspired sermons contentiously Rather, he insists that he resented his lather more although he actually hates neither...
...essential part of Jagger's act is his vulnerability. He is a butterfly for sexual lepidopterists, strutting and jackknifing across the stage in a cloud of scarf and glitter, pinned by the spotlights. Nonresponsibility is written into his whole relationship with the audience, over which he has less control than any comparable idol in rock history; Elvis Presley, who can still tune the fans up and down like a technician twisting a dial, is the opposite. Jagger's act is to put himself out like bait and flick away just as the jaws are about to close...
After the glitter, the ceremonies, the maneuvering and the hard work of a summit, there is usually some letdown, a return to a kind of normality. Both Nixon and Brezhnev have domestic matters to deal with. The President will find skeptics on the left pointing out that the Viet Nam War is still not over; skeptics on the right are already questioning the new amity with the Communists, including the SALT agreement and what it does to American security. But on balance, the summit can only be a vast political asset for Nixon...
...attraction that Hockney's work exerts is its mixture of unusual guile and apparent naivete. He is a painter of frozen pleasures, held in ironic parentheses as though behind glass-the artificial but absorbingly hedonistic blue of Los Angeles swimming pools, the plastic palms, the flat glitter of light on a shower stall or a street facade. It is all painted deadpan, and Hockney's poker-faced style, coupled with his liking for artifacts as subjects, has given rise to the illusion that he is an English Pop artist. But unlike Pop, his work is not concerned with...
Industry more and more appreciates that gold has properties beyond glitter. It is malleable and corrosion resistant, conducts electricity well and reflects light and heat. It is going into not only wedding rings and teeth but also into telephone equipment, jet-engine parts, auto-voltage regulators, electric razors and toasters-mostly in small amounts, alloyed with other metals, at points where electrical contacts are made. Meanwhile production in South Africa, the world's leading source of gold, has been declining, and the Soviet Union has been selling little of its growing gold cache in the West. Now that...