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Best of all, the next film, From Russia With Love, is already under way, and there should be eight more after that. Looking ahead the cultist's mouth waters with prospects of death struggles on the Orient Express and feverish rendezvous with Vesper and Pussy Galore. Even the laymen seemed to like it last night, and as one poppet murmured on her way out of the theatre, "That's one limey who gets me where I live...
...Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league...
More than 20 booths representing countries from Africa to Scandinavia, South America to the Orient, will greet visitors from noon to midnight on ISA's grounds. Arts and crafts from seven continents will be on display...
...incidentally, the 40,000 U.S. troops stationed in Korea. Out to Manila and Macao went the call for croupiers, and four Americans from Las Vegas moved in to manage the action. But when it opened up ten miles outside Seoul last week, the Monte Carlo of the Orient proved to be little more than a $5,000,000 bingo parlor with soda fountains...
Balanchine's notion of the Orient is clearly more erotic than Mayuzumi's. The music is fragmented and ethereal, with no hint of sensuality in rhythm or dynamics. The dance, though, is something else again. The lovers stalk each other with expressionless hunger, and the postures they strike between movements are clear imitations of love. Balanchine did not intend to copy the traditional Bugaku, in which only men appear, but those who are misled by the borrowed title are likely to think that if such goings on are traditional in the Imperial Household, never mind the Ginza...