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...photo-agency contract coaxed him to the U.S., but his work went unappreciated. It was subtle and delicate; photo editors who wanted easy- to-read pictures were unmoved. In Paris he had been one of the pioneers of photojournalism. In New York City, where the hustle and grind made him shudder, he turned to routine assignments, flattering swank living rooms for House and Garden...
...anthropologists bother to do fieldwork at all? Nigel Barley, an anthropologist and African specialist at London's Museum of Mankind, ponders the question in this witty memoir of his hapless adventures. Some go to grind an ax or two, as students of Margaret Mead now know. But Barley believes that most anthropologists pursue fieldwork for its cheery reminiscences and lifelong opportunities to one-up colleagues who have never traveled. Experience abroad, he says, confers a "valuable aura of eccentricity upon the really rather dull denizens of anthropology departments...
...determined vote getter. At the Miss Israel pageant in Tel Aviv last week, she got enough of the judges' votes to make her runner- up. The child of Begin's daughter Hassia, Ayelet hesitated to enter the competition until she got encouragement from her grandfather. During the grind of dieting and exercise before the contest, her spirits were kept high by daily telephone pep talks from the reclusive Begin, who did not, however, attend the event. As runner-up, Ayelet won $500 and the right to represent Israel in the Miss World contest in London. (The winner goes...
When it comes to good sex, no one has explored the subject more exhaustively than Dr. Ruth Westheimer. But even the tirelessly cheerful radio and television talk-show sexpert gets worn down by the grind of filmmaking. "It's much harder than being a psychosexual counselor," she says. Dr. Ruth went to Paris to make her film debut opposite Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver in a French farce, One Woman or Two. Westheimer plays a rich American who bankrolls Depardieu's research into the 2,000-yearold remains of the first Frenchwoman. When Depardieu shows up at the airport looking...
...outside contractors. Clergymen and civil rights and labor activists, who see the legislation as a threat to Australian unionism, have joined in the protests. Recently the unions blockaded the state's transportation links for 24 hours. Sir Joh afterward attacked the unions as a "bloodthirsty lot trying to grind down the community." Said he: "They do not realize their days of threatening and bullying people in this state are over...