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FIRST INTERNATIONAL GIRLIE EXHIBIT-Pace, 9 West 57th. Fun and games pop out on the walls, making the Mona Lisa look like a sedate frump and some of Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself...
...Sister (Miss de Lavallade) who has also aroused a prospective brother (McKayle). As the fetishistic Elder rips layers off the Sister's dress, McKayle staggers before Christ's altar, crying, "He's all aroun'; but Ah cain't see Him." Meanwhile the Deacons implore him to "Take mah han'," jogging their bodies like jerky rock 'n' rollers. In one of his epileptic fits (de rigeur for any prospective member of a Pentecostal church), McKayle writhes rather unimaginatively on the floor. One would think that fits contained endless possibilities, choreographically, but perhaps...
...design is the basis of one of the oldest games in the world, ancestor of the abacus and of backgammon, dominoes and mah-jongg. Its most popular U.S. incarnation-called Kalah-is the life work of a spry 82-year-old retired financial counselor, who is suddenly hard put to keep up with the demand...
...years ago, West Coast beatniks and other intellectually unemployed seized upon Buddhism with all the enthusiasm some earlier orientalists had shown for mah-jongg. Their brief flings were mainly with the Zen sect, which concentrates on self-examination and is the most intellectual of the major Buddhist sects. But most Buddhists in the U.S., like Buddhists in Japan, belong to the Jodo Shinshu sect, which teaches that the Buddhist goal of cosmic enlightenment can be reached through faith in Amida Buddha, the Enlightened One of Infinite Life and Light. Of approximately 100,000 U.S. Buddhists, probably 80,000 are Shinshu...
Bowling alleys, which have transformed themselves into highly respectable meccas of organized togetherness (don't say "alleys," say "lanes"), are featuring billiard rooms (don't say "pool," say "pocket billiards"), where Mom and the kids can click away in an air-conditioned, Muzaked atmosphere as wholesome as mah-jongg...