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...Sterling Area One Dollar Dominion One Sun That Never Sets One Maltese Cross One Marylebone Cricket Club One Trans-Antarctic Expedition And a Mother Country Up a Gum Tree...
...collects rubber bands, bubble gum, matchboxes, unmatched gloves, old typewriter ribbons and dull pencils. She is prone to the sulks, unwinds by tossing dishes at her husband, and coddles a breakfast taste for hot fudge sundaes. All this, burbling forth from a lithe, long-legged, freckled, near-perfect frame (34-24-34), Puts Shirley MacLaine in a new category; expert Hollywood status seekers consider her so far out that she is in, way in. Shirley, at 25, is the brightest face, the freshest character and the most versatile new talent in Hollywood...
...shows by the clock-organ music from 6 a.m. until noon, building to wild, brassy jazz when things heat up after midnight.) All Bill Harrah's dealers, half of whom are women, are trained in his own school. None of them are allowed to smoke, drink or chew gum on duty; careful research has even chosen what Harrah considers to be the most effective bad-breath tablets (Binaca) to be used while working. A Hollywood designer was called in to dress the girl dealers, and a 24-page gambling guide was published for novices...
...quotation. Using this technique, the critic must be careful that the words he quotes actually appear in the work he attacks, and are not drawn from obscure slots in the CRIMSON files or from even dimmer recesses in the Cambridge collective unconscious ("other-directed," "sibling rivalry," "residual bitterness," "bubble gum," etc.). In Mr. A.'s review many words are enclosed by quotation marks, but few of these words may be found enclosed within the covers of our magazine. By giving us credit for sentences which pour out of his own head or somewhere, Mr. A. blights Gadfly with a tone...
...Where are today's non-conformists? Where are today's pioneers?" asks Brian Featherstone in his essay on "the apathy of the American student." And so it goes. Everyone sits around and says, "Well, that's the way the bubble-gum pops" while all the real questions remain unanswered...