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...tribe of Kennedy cousins, the aunts and uncles, according to a family friend, "never know when they talk to Jackie whether it will be a week or a year before they hear from her again." Senator Edward Kennedy did make the trip to Skorpiós to lend the widow some support, but it is unlikely that his gesture signals Jackie's return to the fold...
...courage failed, but ago does lend a certain bravado in the face of anticipated rejection...
Apparently she was recruited to lend a little weight to a mean, shallow and indifferent enterprise. The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a listless nervous-breakdown farce, adapted by Neil Simon from his play about the traumas and indignities of living in Manhattan. Jack Lemmon, unwired and wrung out, appears as an lid executive who loses his job and proceeds to crack under all the usual New York tensions, from unruly cab drivers to walls that crack like eggshells, from vicious neighbors to violence in Central Park. Bancroft plays his wife, loving and impatient and reasonably brave, who sees...
...Kooning's portraits are equally fascinating. Portrait of Max Morgulis displays great sensitivity to the intensity of the pencil line. Subtle changes in pressure lend a delicacy to the face, which seems to emerge quietly from the paper. A less representational series of pen and ink drawings are devoted to the female form in relation to its surroundings. In Figure in Interior the human body is absorbed by bold black strokes that envelop it. The woman in Untitled, 1967, is swept up in the rhythm of the lines as one might be carried off by a hurricane...
...coup in Uganda involved a classic case of arms bouncing from country to country. The five Sherman tanks used by General Idi Amin Dada in the army revolt against President Milton Obote were originally sent by Washington to the Soviets under the World War II Lend-Lease Act. Moscow later transferred them to the Egyptians, from whom they were captured by the Israelis in 1967. Israel overhauled the tanks and then delivered them to Uganda as part of an aid program...