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...here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed-but-I-became-a-star-anyway-so-there; Marilyn Monroe cuddles in a vulnerable curl; Josephine Baker gives her best come-hither look, clad only in yards and yards of pearls...
THERE'S A fleeing-frontrunner motif to the Big Race so far, and bruited in the pages of the liberal press are some distinct flight images: Ronald Reagan running hither and yon to regain $90 billion worth of lost ground; Gerald Ford running for daylight, daylight which for him must come in regular bursts on the first Friday and the 20th of each month with the proclamation of jobless and price index figures; and, most recently, Jimmy Carter running for cover from forays into his past...
More inscrutable, in another sense, is Joyce's correspondence. His letters helped enormously in discovering the schematic layout of Ulysses and some of the obscurities in Finnegan's Wake. But they also open up another realm for the scholars of hither and yon; they sketch out the tracery of ganglia and dendrons that made up Joyce's character, from the tip of his penis to the top of his cerebrating cells. In Richard Ellmann's collection of Joyce letters this sketch becomes fuller in direct proportion to the descent of the nervous charge from the brain to the genitals...
...East Hampton parking fines. Among other Rattiner whoppers: a 1972 disclosure that Billionaire Howard Hughes had moved into the top two floors of the area's tallest (seven stories) building, and an eye-opener last year about how Soviet oil drillers were operating off Hither Hills State Park with an oil rig disguised as a fishing trawler. Both the stories sent reporters from national news organizations scrambling to investigate. "I believe the line between reality and fiction is obvious," says Rattiner. "If I fail in making it so, it is my fault. But it certainly gets everyone talking about...
...America. "It's not just the war," he says. "I'm as opposed to the welfare state as I am to the warfare state. The Government is doing everything that the Declaration of Independence said you should resist," he says. Like the British, the Government "is sending hither swarms of officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance...