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Orlovsky's paramount contribution to the evening was a little "sex experiment." He typed with his left hand while using his right hand on Allen. "Hey, what would happen if we all got naked?" Ginsberg mused...
Pledging his regime to "realization of the country's paramount interests," Abboud dragged the country out of economic chaos. He brought in massive industrial capital, pushed ahead with ambitious hydroelectric projects, doubled the Sudan's rich cotton lands by expanding the vast, British-built Gezira irrigation complex...
Winging into London to promote a Soviet film festival, auburn-haired Soviet Cinemactress Natalya Fateyeva, 25, speedily shaped up (36-25-37) as the most popular Russian export since caviar. Ounce for ounce, it also developed, she was in the same price league. Offered a small role in Paramount's production of Moll Flanders, she allowed as how she was "very flattered." However, she is already earning $75,000 a year, and "for $6 a week I get a luxury flat in Moscow and a beautiful country cottage. I have my car, my three fur coats...
...histrionics, neither side could really prick the apparent lack of interest on the part of the electorate in the issues that matter to the parties. For Labor, as Wilson thundered last week, the paramount issue is "the economic crisis which every expert expects to follow this election boom." For the Tories, it is the retention of British control over nuclear weapons-"the ticket to the top table" in world affairs, as Home...
...Kitaj, "but you can't help being moved by the great cultural issues peripheral to the picture." He carefully divides his time between reading and painting, produces barely ten canvases a year. In his earlier work the periphery threatened to take over completely, with minute, wordy inscriptions fussily paramount. Now he lets the paint, flat, matte and massy, do the job. His wife refused $7,500 for his Junta...