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Argentina has no national literature, but it has produced a literary mind that is as mysterious and elusive as the fretted shadows on the moonlit grass. He is Jorge Luis Borges, 67, who has been hailed in his own country as the greatest living writer in Spanish, though only a few of his books (Ficciones, Dreamti-gers) have been translated into English. All told, his international reputation rests on three slim volumes. These new selections are a collage of fables, parables, essays and poems-the ones he chooses to be judged...
...Private Ear-The Public Eye, a 1963 Broadway hit by Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret...
...fire that swept the 16-year-old Norwegian vessel resembled that aboard the Yarmouth Castle, the Panamanian-registered cruise ship on which 90 people-mostly passengers-died last November. In both cases the vessels were plying well-traveled Caribbean channels and carrying about 500 passengers and crewmen beneath idyllic, moonlit skies. As foreign ships, neither conformed fully to American safety standards. Each of the fires occurred in the early-morning hours, when only a few revelers lingered on deck...
Just to See. For many of the new breed of desert rats, the races were just an excuse to enjoy the scenery. After the sun had disappeared along with canned dinners and roasted marshmallows, the sightseeing variety hopped back in their buggies, played follow-the-leader across the moonlit dunes un til 4 a.m. Said one enthusiast: "It is simply beautiful out there. In the moonlight, the sand looks as white as snow." If the sport exhilarates Californians, it absolutely floors foreigners. Wrote a senior Japanese naval officer after seeing the Las Vegas Strip, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland...
...Jane nor love interest in Producer Weintraub's 1960s concept of the Edgar Rice Burroughs hero. "They like to think of their new Tarzan as 'the James Bond of the Jungle,'" she complains, "but Bond would have known what to do with a blonde on a moonlit night on a tropical river. Tarzan just cuddles up to his monkey." Murray, who plays a riverboat captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even...