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...neophyte, that first plunge into the gossip pits of Women's Wear Daily can be like a trip to the Tuaregs-everything seems veiled, pale blue and couched in some mysterious language. What follows is a rough translation of some of the more common nicknames and catch phrases that appear regularly in "Eye," "Eye Too" and other features...
When the ghost becomes really threatening, God intervenes and pays a call on Maurice. Yes, God-in the form of a pale, silky-haired young man with a "not very trustworthy face." Thoroughly shaken, Maurice reels on to an equivocal denouement. His dream of a sexual threesome is achieved with disastrous domestic consequences. He eventually exorcises the ghost but is left haunted hy what he sees when he looks in the mirror. "Death was my only means of getting away for good," he reflects, "from the constant awareness of this body, from this person, with his ruthlessness and sentimentality...
...early years of elementary school. But in the last year Jeremy, now ten, has been earning A's and B's in his classes at Anaheim, Calif. The difference is that now, before every breakfast and lunch and after school during the academic year, Jeremy takes a pale green tablet of Ritalin, the trade name for methylphenidate, a mild stimulant...
...people of the State of California must dispose, legally, of the murder of Actress Sharon Tate and six other people on two successive nights last August-murders in which the killers and the killed were unknown to each other. Last week Manson-pale but composed, in blue prison denim, his dark hair a flowing frame for his pinched face-walked into the Los Angeles courtroom where the concerns of the state must be met. On his forehead was his symbol of apartness: an X, in his own dried blood, cut there because "I have X-ed myself from your world...
When the friends and family make it to the funeral home they find the De Molays already arrived and the undertaker in full mourning clothes at the door, wearing his grief like a tight-fitting hat, his face pale, his eyes drawn tight almost in a squint. When people see the body they remark that the undertaker has done a good job, for you can hardly tell that Anthony had the side of his face shot away when a land mine exploded, and that the doctors in the Army surgical unit who tried to operate on the poor wounded mass...