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...gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay is a married man now-and most of the 25 extra pounds he had put on this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down to 208 by fight time"), he was running four miles a day (one of them backward), boxing as many as nine rounds in an afternoon, studying movies...
...everybody else uses? Nothing to it, says the University of London's John Downing, the top I.T.A. researcher. "Automatic transference" seems to occur because I.T.A. children are meanwhile seeing regular spelling on everything from street signs to newspapers. This makes them all the prouder to switch to "grownup writing," says Downing. Average children do it in minutes after laying aside their I.T.A. books. Those "hopeless" seven-year-olds did it in two hours...
Perhaps the greatest danger of growing up is that people expect you to continue acting like a grownup once you have shown you are capable of it. The Congress, after handling the tax cut with some maturity and voting a stout civil rights bill decisively through the House, has acted quickly to restore its previous image and disappoint anyone expecting responsible conduct throughout the rest of the session...
This brand of grownup, contemporary sex probably won't shock an audience of contemporary American grownups, but it may well have them asking one another: Where did you go? Way out. What did you see? Nothing...
...Affair of the Skin just misses being a first-class parody of the foreign art films that inspired it. Purporting to show "the realism of grownup, contemporary sex" in America-not in England or France or Italy-Producer-Writer-Director Ben Maddow (The Savage Eye) serves up a mannered little pastiche of urban infidelities that is pure counterfeit. Husband Kevin McCarthy can't stand shrewish Wife Lee Grant, so he takes up with Model Viveca Lindfors, who is the mistress of his best friend Herbert Berghof. Rounding out the quintet, for no discernible reason except to exploit interracial dalliance...