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...mod is going out, moderate is moving in, and the button-down is back. Says Danny Zarem, vice president and fashion director at Manhattan's Bonwit Teller: "Men have gotten the peacockery out of their systems. They feel it's now time to return to good taste...
...talk to farmers in the fields. Though charming and often witty in conversation, he can be downright dull on the hustings. In deference to the youth vote, McGovern's hair has crept down over his collar and he has taken to wearing flashy mod clothes, but his failure to create any sense of drama about himself and his convictions is the despair of his staff...
...injuries as he climbed to the top, but always recovered; "I am like a phoenix," he often said. His dazzlingly cunning techniques in the ring wowed sumo aficionados time and again. When out of combat, he was a swinging celebrity who violated the tradition of his craft by wearing mod Western clothes...
Black Comedy--as you may now have guessed, it's the winner of the two--is also based on a single gimmick. But, in its case, the gimmick begs to be told. Premise is: Brindsley Miller, a mod young sculptor played with vigor by Pope Brock, is expecting a visit from Georg Bamberger (John Archibald again), richest man in the world (and not a little like Howard Hughes), who just might buy one of Brindsley's sculptures, thereby permitting the sculptor to marry his fiancee, whose father is also expected to drop in before evening's end--WHEN--the lights...
...time once again for all you pseudo jocks to shine as bright as your hero as we leave the plastic world of domed stadiums and mod sod and return to the natural turf of yesteryear, where Ozzie and Harriet topped the Neilson Ratings, Danny and Juniors were grabbing gold records for ABC-Paramount, and football was king...