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...Locust. "The violet hush of twilight was descending over Los Angeles as my hostess, Violet Hush, and I left its suburbs headed toward Hollywood. In the distance a glow of huge piles of burning motion picture scripts lit up the sky. The crisp tang of frying writers and directors whetted my appetite. How good it was to be alive, I thought, inhaling deep lungfuls of carbon monoxide... A suttee was in progress by the road side... Violet and I elbowed our way through the crowd. An enormous funeral pyre composed of thousands of feet of film and scripts drenched with...
...Cyprus; and France's Giscard, his V-E day proclamation notwithstanding, refuses to attend the meeting of NATO heads of state that will convene in Brussels later this month. Almost despite themselves, the Europeans seem to be heading toward Brussels hoping to find warmth and comfort in the glow of a chastened President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The summit is being viewed conveniently, but also realistically, as the first sign that the U.S. is not slinking away...
...Lunts in The Misanthrope, John Wood portraying a rapier-sharp Sherlock Holmes, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Firth in the psychological tour de force Equus. Even Liv Ullmann turned up, though in a disappointing production of A Doll's House; her presence gave the season an extra glow...
...fashioned after La Scala 1969, except that the second act is set in Maometto's tent rather than on his ship. And what a tent it is-opulent red carpets and ottomans, hanging lamps, each big enough to contain a man, table lamps that burn with a molten glow...
...mighty belly-boggling, legendary dinner. Douglas gets sick and lies loony and limp. He gets well. He and his brother rocket around town, crazy with motion. He hides, quiet, in the dark bed of ferns beside the porch, listening to the drone of grown-up voices; cigar ends glow in the dusk. His new sneakers fade, streak, scuff, and at last lose their amazing power. Pencils and notebooks appear in the dime-store window: school lurks. The porch swing is taken down. And the summer of 1928 is over...