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...effect of her monologue on an audience would probably be as incongruous as that of a theatrical experiment in which a couple exchanged the French words for various vegetables and listeners mistook them for endearments...
Wrong Names. In recent months there have been reports that Douglas was getting some coworkers' names wrong and that he once even mistook his own chambers for those of Chief Justice Warren Burger. He has chosen not to participate in some 25 cases and has not written a major opinion in 1975, though he has filed a few short dissents. In one such dissent last week he gamely reiterated his feeling that the court is not overworked, as the Chief Justice persistently argues. Wrote Douglas: "I have found it a comfortable burden carried even in my months of hospitalization...
...food stalls in front of Saigon's cathedral. Young women crowded the lobby of the Mini Rex Theater every matinee to see Brigitte Bardot in Boulevard du Rhum. Roving photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from 2,000 to 3,900 for one U.S. dollar in four days. For a time, a hooker could be hired for less than $1. But when hopes for a cease-fire rose, the piaster rate dropped...
...took the chance of making a run for it. Spotted by an airplane and a helicopter hovering overhead, they were soon ticketed by other patrol cars lurking on access roads. Normally, a dozen accidents take place on a big weekend, but only one occurred during the experiment: a drunk mistook a drainage ditch for an exit ramp...
...good news about the HRO this year is the consistent integrity of its programming. Last year's management tried to lure audiences with several trivial pieces--such as Dukas's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" of Walt Disney fame--which it mistook for crowd pleasers. The new management has dispensed with such condescension and every work which has been scheduled so far is worth hearing. Like last year, the HRO is performing well. The difficulties which arose in the last concert, presumably from musical overcommitment, should be rectified in the upcoming programs, which seem to be of a more manageable scope...