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...London slums where she shares a flat with a sluttish violinist, Georgy discovers that sex is mostly a spectator sport. "You just missed being beautiful," mocks her roommate's modcap beau (Alan Bates). When the violinist gets pregnant, the mod marries her, and Georgy sticks around to cook, clean, clown, care for the baby, and light the slow-burning fires of infidelity. The emergence of Georgy is essentially a souped-up Cinderella tale, sometimes preposterous, always sentimental, but occasionally human and hilarious too. Plumpish birds who nest alone on Saturday nights will cherish its pathos, and others will respect...
...that she presides serenely over London's mod fashion establishment at the mellowing age of 32, Designer Mary Quant, the grand old lady of miniskirts and hippy styles, decided that it was time to reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back...
...moon rose over London's Albert Hall to cue in a loony howler called the Greater-Than-London Fire New Moon Carnival of Poetry. Some 2,000 shaggies and stringies in mod costume settled down for a cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon...
...course, there are even more basic reasons for the travail of Britain's not-so-sterling currency. Low productivity and lackadaisical management have con tributed to a chronic trade deficit, which last month increased 14% from the April level. The British appear to care more about mod than money. Mourned Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan: "It seems we are talking to those who are deaf. In the end, the government cannot achieve success. Only the country can do that...
Baby Jane Holzer, a sometime mod el, played at being Ariel in Simonet-ta's backless, almost frontless halter-top dress of pink chiffon, but stubbornly sat out all the dancing "to promote my new image," whatever that meant. Obviously there was a genuine chance that in a moment of abandon her dress might abandon her. Maybe the new Baby Jane just doesn't do that sort of thing any more. Not at the Plaza, anyway...