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...flags appeared everywhere. The festivities were interrupted when two Israeli Kfir fighters dived low over the city and released clouds of leaflets promising swift retaliation in the event of hostile action against Israel's withdrawing forces. But about the only violence that day occurred when armed men dragged a pajama-clad man, suspected of collaborating with the Israelis, from his house, bundled him into a car trunk and drove off. All told, half a dozen alleged collaborators are believed to have been killed in Sidon since the pullout. Many others had fled Sidon earlier...
Democracies use so few, and ours tend to look like Abbott and Costello movies, a cross between bacchanals and pajama parties. Where is the dignity in a presidential election campaign? Where are the issues of substance? Let us consider the matter with deep seriousness as the red, white and blue balloons shower down on our funny hats and a tuba ooms in our ears. More noise, please. (Is this your baby, madam? Extraordinary. Of course, I'll kiss...
DIED. Frederick Brisson, 71, theatrical and film producer who oversaw some 20 Broadway shows, including the Tony Award-winning The Pajama Game (1954) and Damn Yankees (1955), then turned many of them into successful movies, and who was also responsible for the first appearances on Broadway of Play wrights Peter Shaffer (Five Finger Exercise, 1959) and Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, 1961); of a stroke; in New York City. Brisson was married for 35 years to Actress Rosalind Russell, until her death...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
...also decided to take an active role in creating the clothes that she wears so well. Last week Brinkley was in Manhattan at the gala "label cutting" for her own Russ Togs line of swim and sport clothes due in department stores this fall. Wearing a man's pajama shirt and secondhand tuxedo jacket plus knit cotton pants she designed herself, Brinkley wants "to design clothes that are comfortable. These are not going to be skimpy bathing suits cut up to here. These are suits my mom can wear too." Considerate dads might want...