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Director Elio Petri is deft and stylish with an escapade between a svelte, sexually inhibited matron (Claire Bloom) and an ardent industrialist (Charles Aznavour). After chasing around the tycoon's sumptuous beach house, the lady reveals that her whim for today is rough stuff in a sleazy motel room-a touch of aberration that is clue to a conventional surprise ending. In the last episode, Modern People, directed with rich detail and folksy color by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), a cheese dealer (Ugo Tognazzi) offers his wife to a creditor in payment of his gambling losses...
...themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis of family or behavior rather than wealth. Recalling that Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, one of the doyennes of Newport society in the good old days, once delighted her guests by filling her ballroom with live butterflies, a young Newport matron said wistfully, "If I did that, everybody would think they were moths...
Diversity. Not many suburban housewives get invited to the White House. Nor, for that matter, do many poets. This week, when Phyllis McGinley, a pleasant matron of 60 who could pass for 45 and does not try to, a woman who just misses being pretty and does not care, presents herself at the White House, she will find herself on a program that includes only one other poet -Mark Van Doren. Asked to recite one of her own poems, she chose In Praise of Diversity, originally written for a Columbia commencement, which ends...
...take the lead. But Bret responded with a burst of speed that carried him across the finish line three-quarters of a length in front. His time for the mile: 1 min. 59 2/5 sec.-a new track record. By comparison, last week's $21,434 Matron Stake at Michigan's Wolverine Raceway was strictly a breeze: ripping through the last 1 mile in 29 sec. flat, Bret whinnied all the way to a six-length victory...
...Downing recently turned down an offer of $850,000 for Bret. "If I took the money," he explained, "I might blow it all on some silly mining stock. Then where would I be?" As it is, the pickings are nothing to complain about. Bret's victory in the Matron Stake was worth $10,717, bringing his winnings so far this year to $110,000. But the horse isn't letting all that easy money go to his head. Every time he visits the winner's circle nowadays, Bret demurely dips his forelegs and curtsies to the crowd...