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...Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done a zapateado before the avid lenses of a team from Paris Match, he gives Dominguin some
...fences in Japanese ballparks are 30 ft. to 40 ft. shorter than those in the U.S. Eager to amend their deficiencies, the Tokyo Giants attended daily lectures run by their hosts, the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking notes as Shortstop Maury Wills told them through an interpreter to "Sekkyoku-teki ni hasire [Run aggressively]" and Batting Coach Dixie Walker advised ''Liner uchi o kokoro gakeyo [Hit the line drive]." They did, and banged out an 8-4 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies and a 3-3 record before returning home to Tokyo...
...much American self-doubt, one European, however, offers a generously sympathetic vision. French Author-Critic Jean-François Revel has taken measure of America in stress and has found there hope not only for the U.S. but for the rest of the world. In his new book, Ni Marx Ni Jesus (Neither Marx nor Jesus), to be published in the U.S. this fall by Doubleday under the title The New American Revolution, Revel argues that a "revolution" has already begun in the U.S.?a movement capable of success without violent upheaval. Revel sees not a world revolution against...
...week crash course in Australian usage and pronunciation for Asian students at the University of New South Wales. Students are given isolated bits of Strine to cover all sorts of contingencies-envy is usually a case of sag rapes, and summer nights can be hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog. He'll nebby any good...
...Fascisti. He swears revenge and years later the adult Dax (Bekim Fehmiu) helps a Castro-style Latin American leader named Rojo (Alan Badel) to survive a bloody uprising. On the way to the palacio, Dax becomes an insatiable voluptuary. According to Robbins' five-peseta psychology, the poor niño is cursed with the inability to feel-with his heart. With everything else, yes. But with that overworked organ...