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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The British comedy group Monty Python has a sense of humor that shines on record and goes over well on television; unfortunately, a feature-length film can accommodate only so many ludicrous even offensive gags before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight in armor whacked down to a limbless torso may amuse the warped souls among us, but this sweeping satire of the Middle Ages soon exhausts the range of laughable subjects that kicked around in King Arthur's day. Scenes occasionally crop up that deserve a hearty guffaw; too bad they...
...quilt diversification pattern (a movie company, a limousine service, hotels, books, a modeling agency), Playboy Enterprises earned only $2 million on sales of $198 million in fiscal 1976, far below its 1973 earnings peak of $11.2 million. A year ago, Hefner hired Daniels, 48, a vice president of the Knight-Ridder chain. Daniels is a onetime newspaperman (city editor, the Miami Herald) and grandson of the late North Carolina publisher Josephus Daniels, who was Secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson. He was reluctant to take on Hefner's problems but was wooed by the Chief Rabbit...
...Guelph sky has been a high, clean blue, the way boyhood skies appear in memory, and at the rink one feels a sense of boyhood. Of course, the men have me mix it with them. In full hockey gear -was any errant knight more burdened? -I skate till my back smarts and my thighs are lead. It is good to leave customary places and remember. This is how sport ought to be: play some, watch some, give pain, take pain, exult...
...paneled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill. From behind the potted palms, the U.S. Navy Commanders' Trio plinked out Indiana, while congressional movers and shakers wreaked havoc on mounds of shrimp, deviled eggs and sliced beef. The occasion: a retirement fete honoring Frances Knight, 72, for 22 years absolute ruler-some said Dragon Lady-of the U.S. Passport Office. A legend of efficiency, she was also a scrappy defender against a large assortment of enemies, including liberals who opposed her militant conservatism and State Department bureaucrats who chafed at her independence. Admits Knight...
...years later, the family sailed for the U.S., where Nabokov soon be gan to feel "as American as April in Arizona." He taught at Wellesley and Cor nell, studied butterflies at Harvard, and published stories in such magazines as Esquire and The New Yorker. The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941) and Bend Sinister (1947) earned high praise but few royalties. With the American edition of Lolita in 1958, Nabokov be came an unpronounceable household name.* It now seems incredible that only a generation ago a sexually unexplicit novel about a middle-aged man and a pubescent girl caused...