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...face had not been seen lately in first-run moviehouses, and the figure was more svelte than in recent memory. Still, there was no mistaking the identity of the female lead in the glare of the klieg lights at Shepperton Studios near London. Ten pounds lighter and back in front of the cameras after an absence of nearly two years, Elizabeth Taylor is currently filming Zee and Co. with Co-Star Michael Caine. "The unfortunate thing is I enjoy acting, but I'm slothful," said Elizabeth between takes. "I'm so bloody lazy. I think I should retire...
...parachute harness, and Piene hooked her to the center ends of his plastic chrysanthemum, and let go the ropes. Up she floated, 60 ft., bobbing in the wind; then the peripheral ends of the tubes were released from the ground. Slowly the huge fronds swung vertically, shining in the klieg lights, and the whole sculpture rose to 150 ft. Says Piene: "We pulled her down after ten minutes up there. Sue's a brave girl but there had to be safety ropes. Otherwise I suppose she'd be in the stratosphere...
Scene 2: Hollywood, 1935. A sleek phaeton town car whooshes onto the 20th Century-Fox lot. Emblazoned in neon lights along each side is the name "Stepin Fetchit." Under the klieg lights, Fetchit is anything but a phaeton owner. "Dey is ghostes roun' here!" he exclaims, wailing and rolling his eyes horribly. "I gots to get outer here...
...Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
Television cameras, tape recorders. long sound mike poles pointed at her from the corners of the room, klieg lights, ashtrays, notebooks, ties, hot men, closed room, sweat, tapping fingers, shined shoes, winding knobs, leaning-all pointed at her like some mad animal . . . like a gun. All through a blue funk from glowing cigarettes. the faces are dark and there is a menacing murmuring. She had descended into the pit and her words rush out in a whisper of extreme unction...