Word: lorelei
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...LORELEI...
...about her late good friend Jean Cocteau, the French poet and film maker? "That's all been written about too," she says sourly. "In your voice, we hear the voice of the Lorelei," Cocteau had rhapsodized. "In your look, the Lorelei turns to us." Ah yes. What, then, does she think of Charles de Gaulle, still another famous friend? She jumps up and pulls down from one of the bookshelves that line the end of her living room a copy of Marlene Dietrich's ABC-her own special updating of La Rochefoucauld-and begins thumbing through the pages...
...thick glasses; lines radiate from her mouth, and when she sits, something she never does in public, there is a slight bulge around the middle. Still, she is a very good-looking 70, and her magnificently alluring voice is ageless. If she no longer looks like Cocteau's Lorelei, she still sounds like her-or the Lola Lola of The Blue Angel and the Frenchy of Destry Rides Again. That alone may be enough to make her special one of the brighter hours of the TV season...
...markedly different from those that 1,300,000 other Japanese will have followed before the end of this year. The two travelers and their entourage of 34 will visit Notre Dame, see the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen Harbor and ride a steamer along the Rhine to gaze at the Lorelei rocks. At Buckingham Palace, Hirohito might show his Empress the bedroom where, 50 years ago, King George V padded in wearing carpet slippers and suspenders, and boomed: "Everything satisfactory...
...That play where everyone cavorts around with their clothes off is supposed to "liberate" our minds or something? Most of our critics and intellectuals have been going around with their minds unbuttoned for some time. These naive pundits should take Dr. Freud's advice to Lorelei Lee (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos). He told her to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep...