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...Soviet Writers back across the Berlin Wall (which in another poem, pierces through him) apparently expect of their chief literary export item, who came into world prominence during the post-Stalin thaw. Yevtushenko recited his poems by memory, but this poem, being but a few hours off his poem pad, he read. There was about it the quality of improvisation, complete with jazzy tone changes: bombs to balalaikas. Here was Yevtusheno the opportunist at work. At least one can say he is open about it. "My feat of not expressing myself on some topic," he says in his preface...
...section comprises a number of documents from old business and government records, ostensibly to show the nature of the bureaucracy which Kafka saw as a reflection of existential authority, but more likely as a filler to pad out the book to its price of fifteen dollars. How much is to be learned from photos of Kafka's passports and the covering letter to his application for a job at the Insurance Association...
Giant Tent. In an age of super-sophistication, the Now Couple of the late '60s is almost square. Twiggy lives with her parents in a London suburb, and Justin has a fashionably exotic pad near Soho, under the offices of Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped 300 yds. of hand-blocked Indian fabric to form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays...
...President, but also of Mrs. Nixon, Tricia and Julie. Above his desk the doctor keeps a light board showing the whereabouts of every member of the family. Tkach's home at Andrews Air Force Base has a hot line to the White House and a helicopter landing pad next door...
...telephone, the Rolls is almost a house on wheels. Which is not too strange, really, because the road is Flip's only real home. "Quite often I feel the tension, and I'll go driving into the desert," he says. On such occasions he keeps a note pad handy to jot down his thoughts. "I don't go to create, I go to relax," he explains. "But I've never gone and not come back with something-a couple of stories, a handful of one-liners...