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...PSYCHIATRIST told me recently that contemporary culture has moved the fig leaf from the genitals to the face. With his new film Meyer has gone against his own grain. His Valkyries have lost much of thier sexual authority and at times in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls there are moments of restraint. But this surprising equilibrium only reflects the common-sensical questions that have begun to creep into Meyer's films. Meyer as social philosopher, as promulgator of popular tastes, as moralist, sees in his sexual fireworks not only profit, but the bitter lessons of modern liberalism...
Cheery "Blue." The three main defoliants, each cheerily known by the color of the band on its container, do their job with convincing efficiency. "Blue" contains arsenic and burns the juices out of narrow-leaf grasses and rice. "White," a mixture of a persistent chemical called Picloram and 2,4-di-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, causes leaves to shower from trees within weeks. Strongest and most heavily used is "Orange," a mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-tri-chlorophenoxyacetic acid, whose dangers were widely publicized last winter in a New Yorker article by Thomas Whiteside. Last month...
...David-David Niven, that is. Niven has never seen the colossus, which is intended for his aptly titled film The Statue. His features were copied from photos. But he has learned that it deviates in one significant way from the prototype. "The statue has a fig leaf," the actor notes. "And quite a large...
Last December, the HEW Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health suggested that Carbaryl-an insecticide sprayed to combat the elm leaf beetle-was a potential health hazard to man. It apparently causes bone malformations in litters of mice and beagle dogs...
Later in the summer, a contractor also sprays for the clm leaf beetle, Galerucella xanthomelaena. This beetle does not spread the elm disease itself, but large infestations of these insects may weaken the elms and reduce their resistance to the fungus...