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...right (one is even called the National Reactionary Movement), but some are a bit difficult to categorize ideologically. In addition to the Association of Free Merchants and the Autonomous Party of Pensioners, for instance, there is the all-nudist Naturalist Movement, whose candidate this year is Model Anna Maria Martini, 25. Proponents of acid rock, free sex, abortion and legalized marijuana can line up behind the Ippi (hippie) Party's candidate, Angelo Quattrocchi...
Materials included: game board of various colored squares to be spread out on the stage, a few playing pieces, and lying around till needed: a baby bonnet, an adolescent's edition of The Prophet, a college fraternity sweater, a martini glass, etc. and various packs of white opportunity cards, yellow penalty cards, and pink maturity cards. For the Games Master: a bell, a buzzer, and a whistle...
Throughout, Wouk confronts great personages headon. His research has been massive; yet a sense of strain afflicts conversations with the likes of Hitler, Göring and Roosevelt. Did Wouk invent or acquire from some historical footnote that bit about the President's martinis? ("This is an excellent martini," Pug says to a beaming F.D.R. "It sort of tastes like it isn't there. Just a cold cloud.") Hitler's nervous little knee kick is familiar, but what about those "snatching, greedy fingers" as the Führer gobbles iced cakes at a reception? There...
...Perfect Martini. Experienced Wodehouse readers will remain cheerfully secure in the knowledge that Jeeves will cleverly spring Bertie from these cataclysms. So unique is the Wodehouse brand of humor, however, that to describe it is as thankless and bootless as describing the taste of the perfect martini. Wodehouse (pronounced Woodhouse) can be compared to no other novelist, living or dead. His literary ancestor, instead, is the Roman dramatist Plautus, and, like Plautus, he is the manufacturer of a thousand comically crossed connections...
...have the option of staring at the rows of bottles stacked behind it or craning to watch a TV set in a dim corner. Now Bronwen Corp., a brokerage house in Washington, D.C., has opened a restaurant called the Exchange, where a dedicated drinker can down his martini while watching stock market quotations flicker past his eyes on an 8-ft.-wide illuminated Ultronic Systems quote board in back of the bar. Says Harry Hagerty, one of three young partners in Bronwen: "I've always felt that the man interested in watching stock prices ought to have a place...