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...fortunately, the BBC and CBS are giving American viewers Henry in a brilliant six-part pageant entitled The Six Wives of Henry VIII, that began Sunday...
Sparky's big job is to promote the Miss Nude Cosmos Pageant, a nude beauty contest held at Oakdale each summer. His first change has been to bill the pageant "The Woodstock of the Nudist Movement." He explains: "We've got to get the longhairs in here. Only way to save the place. And why not? They took their clothes off at Woodstock. Why can't they do it here...
...certain nimbus of history about it. Tricia's will be the fourth presidential wedding in five years, counting Julie Nixon's marriage to David Eisenhower when her father was President-elect; yet repetition has not much dimmed the novelty. Enough atavistic American love of royalty and appetite for pageant remain, along with gossips' curiosity about the powerful, to make it a kind of minor national ceremony...
...exemplary children of the Marezie Oats oatmeal commercials. To the kids who had to eat the gruel, Pookie and Paul were the double thrust of the '60s youth rebellion. Paul is revered for exposing himself at a Dallas rockfest, Pookie for burning her bra at a Miss America pageant and announcing that "some of my best lovers are high public officials...
Suddenly the cast of thousands disappears. The brilliant-and clearly well-researched - pageant of 7½ centuries of "galloping inhumanity" (1202 to 1947) drastically slows its tempo. African Everyman becomes specific-one Raymond-Spartacus Kassoumi of a Nakem that increasingly resembles Mali. Nakem's black rulers have already decided that only slaves will be exposed to corrupt French schooling. Raymond comes of a slave family. He studies hard and, as his reward, ends up in Paris receiving an elite-and not so elite-education. To Ouologuem, Kassoumi is the ultimate sophistication of slavery: the black man imprinted with...