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Luci-Desi Comedy Hour. Well. Why not? Lucille Ball announced this week that she's quitting her TV show. This episode can commemorate the good old days--before Desi was fat and gray, before Lucy was old and tired, and before Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Hedda Hopper (who plays herself in this one) was dead and gone. You won't have Lucy to kick around much longer. Ch. 56, 7: 30 p.m. 1 hour...
...Neill, the former Prime Minister of Northern Ireland. Most are businessmen, bankers or gentlemen farmers, living, if not in castles in Spain, on the palpable hope of restoration as well as on decent incomes. Not one appears to be a dimwit, a dinosaur or a debauchee or even a gossip-column item. Perhaps the one who conies closest to being a gay blade is Prince Louis-Ferdinand, 66, grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II and claimant to the empire of Germany and the kingdom of Prussia. The prince once had a torrid affair with Lili Damita, an ex-wife of Errol...
After all, the revelation that Vita Sackville-West was a bisexual was not expected to be among the greater literary events of 1973. But gossip of this sort is only a trap Nicolson set to make sure of an audience--the real purpose of the book is to propose a change in our expectations of marriage. Nicolson, after an anguished divorce, recommends a form of marriage consisting of mutual respect and affection but not sexual exclusivity. Sexual attraction and even compatibility become unnecessary for a "successful" marriage. The proof he offers is the life of his own parents--a bizarre...
...SUGAR-COATING for this polemic is some of the juiciest literary gossip to come out of the Bloomsbury boom, which seems to derive much of its momentum from the revelation, at well-spaced intervals, of its members' sexual habits. Bloomsbury, was, we know now, stranger than we could have imagined. Each month for the last year or so has brought a new book calculated to shock, titillate, and endear these brilliant perverts to out hearts. Lytton Strachey's fascination with the eroticism of the ear, John Maynard Keynes's penchant for the hand, and G. Lowes Dickinson's boot fetishism...
...liberated woman of the seventies." Playgirl's editor Marin Scott Milam describes her readers as "intelligent, practical, honest; women who are comfortable with their sexuality who want to know more about everything." Both attempt to market a general interest magazine with erotic overtones. Both have the usual gossip, fashion, fiction, travel, and "how-to" sections. Depending on the magazine, the erotic overtones are either sprinkled lightly in one or two places (Playgirl) or squarely anchored to most articles (Viva...