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...world. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (TIME, Sept. 27) saw modern society as a big brothel. Weekend sees it as a slaughterhouse. A couple (Mireille Dare and Jean Yanne) are embarking on a motor trip. On a narrow country road, they run into an interminable traffic jam. They inch past a line of strange highway flotsam, including a cage of circus animals and a sailboat on a trailer manned by a mariner in wet-weather gear. A few stalled cars honk furiously at the interlopers, but most of the passengers have simply given up and are playing...
...instrumental number called "Mother's Rice Pudding." Ron Wood, who says that he usually sticks to the "basic bass progressions on the blues stuff," suddenly opened up and played a bristling rock-bass solo. This has since been included in the song, and the number which started as a jam one night in San Francisco continues to grow...
...Captain Alec, a onetime British paratrooper, used to walk around with a Madsen submachine gun, an FN rifle, and a shotgun, "just in case I have to shoot my way out of this bloody place." He believed in the "little people," who, he would say in all seriousness, "will jam your machine guns and cause your rockets to misfire." He was wounded four times in six days before he left Biafra...
Kesey became the F.B.I.'s most wanted man, not so much for his enormous crimes, but for the way he refused to take the F.B.I. seriously, sticking his tongue out at law and order. They got him of course, trapping him finally in a traffic jam on the L.A. Freeway. And then, when they finally had him nabbed dead to rights, they...
...general manager of the Coop, said yesterday, "If these kids intend to try for a quorum, I wish they'd come in and tell us. So far all we've had is rumor. We're certainly not attempting to keep anyone from running, but if 1500 people try to jam into Sever 35, it will look as if we're keeping them out and we're not. We have nothing to hide...