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...truth, the only synthesis in the film is between the ludicrous and the unintentionally comic. Locusts swarming over the Capitol dome, an Ethiopian church ceremony that looks like a Coptic version of Regine's, James Earl Jones brooding in locust headdress - the choice moments are many. The question raised by this fiasco is whether Burton is going to go down like John Barrymore, hamming his way through unworthy vehicles that feed off travesties of his talent...
Star of Riyadh. Despite the strains, OPEC had so successfully fostered a one-for-all front that as the Qatar conference began last week, no one could have foreseen its drastic outcome. Bedecked in flowing Saudi robes and headdress, Yamani, who has a Kissinger-style flair for personal diplomacy, arrived at the very last minute. As he entered the plush Gulf Hotel in the Qatar capital of Doha, which had been completely taken over for the conference and placed under heavy security, Yamani gave a swift aside to reporters: "We are for a six-month [price] freeze...
Although American women generally disdain to ape the more outrageous of foreign styles, a moderate version of the scaffolded look has become popular in the Colonies. Not long ago, the Boston Gazette ungallantly reported the plight of a young woman whose headdress was shattered when she was thrown from her carriage by startled horses. The stuffing fell onto the road, revealing an unsavory mixture of jute fiber, wool yarn, curled wool...
...made several bitter statements about discrimination against her fellow blacks in the U.S. That did not prevent her from coming home periodically to perform in the U.S., notably for a four-concert Carnegie Hall series in 1973 in which she wore a spangled body-stocking and a towering headdress of flamingo-colored plumes. It seemed for a moment that the Folies-Bergere might rise again. "My whole life has been my art and the theater, and I really think the contact is necessary to stay fresh," Josephine Baker once said...
...this atmosphere, minor and major events are seen as portents. Kissinger jokingly tries on an Arab headdress in Jordan; to some Jews this symbolizes his wooing of the Arabs (and because he himself is Jewish, he is believed by some other Jews to be bending over backward to demonstrate