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Crocodile Story. Another guarded community, 125-home Westlake Island, north of Los Angeles, is reachable only by bridge. A guard inspects visitors at the entrance to the bridge, checks with the resident to be sure that company is expected, and only then allows the guest to drive across the moat. As a result, the island is crime-free. "The biggest problem we have," says one guard, "is keeping sightseers off the island and breaking up teen-age parties that get out of hand." Each homeowner on the island pays an annual $220 assessment (nondeductible) covering the cost of the guards...
Nobody, not even the omnipresent George, seems to know what thoughts Flip may have that he does not write down. "He doesn't give much," says Herbert Baker, chief writer on the show. "There's a wall. Inside the wall is a moat. And then the fortress begins." Few members of his show's staff have ever seen the inside of his home, a two-bedroom colonial that he rents in the Hollywood Hills. His awards-which include two Emmys-are placed in front of his bed. facing a brass statue of a clown, a gift from...
...only a gossipist and eavesdropper but an aging whoremonger, moralist, printer and pamphleteer, skeptic, citizen, sentimentalist and night-prowling philosopher. He catches perfectly the queerness of the scene when he does reach the Bastille: "The fortress is being looted. From the high towers precious documents float down into the moat." He records the rainy grayness of Paris and the strange periods of calm when the Revolution catches its breath ("Most people lost interest . . . The price of bread continued to rise"). He sees the city's whores applaud a lynching "with their white hands, so expert at stimulating desire...
...issue of Feb. 28, 1969, TIME'S Essay observed that the growing incidence of terrorist attacks on airliners, ships, and individuals and institutions of all kinds suggested nothing so much as the Dark Ages, "when the only safe haven was the castle, with its great moat, drawbridge and armed men glaring from the turrets." That age of world disorder never seemed closer than last week during the Middle East hijackings, when a small band of fanatics terrorized hundreds of people, blew up four planes and held the world at bay. ∙ For its cover story on the incredible week...
...then ingeniously proposes that his duo of lovers plight their troth to each other so that he may always be true, in his fashion, to both. The countess is delighted, for the bride's dowry will bring in enough gold to fill the castle moat. Something for everyone, even before the plot reaches ludicrous heights of sadistic mayhem...