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...Levi's. "Girls need to design something that nobody else has, and now they can," says Michael Mott, 27, successor to Betsey Johnson as chief designer for Paraphernalia. Mott is all for the hippies, hence his American Indian costume. But like many other young people, he is also tuned in to other cultures, as witness his fur-trimmed midiskirts, borrowed from Persia. The same is true for Deanna Littell, 29, who finds ethnic inspiration in the costumes of Polish peasants and Russian Cossacks; Gayle Kirkpatrick, 34, who adapts the dress of Persian houris; Edie Gladstone, 39, who fancies...
Basically, it is music for the man who likes the plays of Samuel Beckett, the paintings of Marcel Duchamp and the films of Antonioni. It begins in a mood of tension: excerpts from Claude Levi-Strauss's writings on Brazilian mythology are read against a highly dissonant background. In the haunting second part, the name Martin Luther King is recited and sung over and over again, the syllables spilled out here, squeezed there, so that the name is uttered in an endless variety of permutations. In the impassioned third section, the vocalists speak and sing excerpts from Beckett...
...commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously that "any form of war and incitement to war will oblige us to repel, deter, and take the battle to the enemies' gates and beyond." That might mean new invasion thrusts toward Damascus, Amman and Cairo if the commando infiltrations continue...
Progressive leaders met with Premier Levi Eshkol, petitioned the government to grant Reform Judaism wider legal status in Israel, demanding that 1) Reform rabbis be permitted to officiate at weddings and funerals, 2) conversions to Judaism carried out by Reform rabbis be legally recognized, and 3) the government provide financial aid to Reform groups, as it does to Orthodox congregations...
...park behind the city's Museum of Fine Arts. Last week they held a typically unorthodox, nonlegal wedding presided over by a minister from the hippies' own Neo-American Church. The bride wore printed culottes and a necklace of appleseeds; the barefoot groom was in tattered Levi's and a Nehru jacket. After the ceremony, they danced to a throbbing rock band, then left for a protracted honeymoon on the Common...