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...Preston nonetheless puts enough showmanly sizzle into a revival-styled pitch called Trouble and the celebrated Seventy-Six Trombones to make at least part of the 2½ hours roll by like enchanted minutes. The Music Man is only funny by fidgets, but lip-curling Hermione Gingold, looking like Nero somewhat past his prime, does small comic wonders in the role of a born vulgarian with cultural longings, and the mayor of River City, Paul Ford, runs amusingly off at the mouth as a kind of Mr. Malaprop...
...both Henry Miller's hot-panting Tropic of Cancer and D. H. Lawrence's lukewarm Lady Chatterley's Lover are sold openly in the U.S. But what is no longer forbidden loses half its charm. For the first time since Petronius wrote his Satyricon to titillate Nero, were the printers of the unprintable in danger of insolvency...
...also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging, homosexual husband; Iskander Jamal, the flabby leader of the Moslem opposition. Besides its obvious parallel with Lebanon and its divided population, the book has a more esoteric derivation from the story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from his ingenious historical allusions. Author McLaughlin, a TIME foreign news writer, offers wry observations on the follies of fanaticism, the ironies of power, and the value of the untidy solution and the unresolved crisis. Many a reader who has felt...
...PAUL DEL NERO...
Saving Instinct. German campers have made the three-hour cup of coffee a way of vacation life. In Italian cafes, they sit six deep around a cheap bottle of vino nero, dawdle away an afternoon for 30?. Tip-conscious waiters avoid them like the plague, comment sardonically: "They have more money than other Europeans. Naturally they want to save...