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...Mod. Modern. "It's high fashion," say Boston's dedicated following of fashion who flit from shop to shop on Washington Street. "It's Nowness. Newness. It's anything new and different." We send men towards the moon, elect movie stars, build neon Babylons, make music with electricity and look at the planet through telescopic, microscopic drugs--so why not have clothes to match...
...Vaudeville Band is just what the name says; no mod rock 'n' roll about it. Its members play ordinary band instruments for the most part, but their music warbles like a combination of Spike Jones, Rudy Vallee and the A & P Gypsies. They sing through megaphones with a quavering quality that is strictly vo-do-de-o-do, wailing about a boy who got dumped by his girl at, by, near or in the Winchester Cathedral...
When on the town, Lee Radziwill wears a white lame and silver-sequined dress. Barbara Howar, Washington's high priestess of mad mod fashion, showed up at the International Ball in a strapless tent dress of silver lame ribbons on net, while her best friend, Yolande Fox, came wrapped in silver tinsel threaded through ice-blu lace...
...Voice. Now comes this mod est revival. U.S.A. (1938), District of Columbia and Most Likely to Succeed (1954) have been reissued. World in a Glass, a shrewdly selected anthology from all the novels, with an essay by Kenneth S. Lynn, has just been published coincidentally with The Best Times, a compilation of new sketches described as "an informal memoir" -which is probably the closest thing to an autobiography that can be expected this modest...
...Henry Livings, is a comedy of incongruity, unpredictability, originality and farcical absurdity. Its hero, Valentine Brose (Dustin Hoffman), is a Buster Keaton in a mod outfit who occasionally breaks into sly and menacing smiles. His mind is a running assault on logic. He is a living non sequitur. But his madness is the sanity of seers...