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...shudders to think how the book would be greeted by feminists if it were published unheralded today. The women in it have no qualities whatever beyond the suppleness of their bodies and the pasta-like pliancy of their minds...
...shows them as the hotheaded hoods and wiser, mellower monsters that they are. They live in their own social and spiritual hierarchy: the men of the New York Five Families here depicted battle for position in an underworld pecking order, and keep their women and children secure with pasta and the Catholic Church and other more American delights. If Don Corleone, the Man himself, and Michael, his son and successor, come off looking better than any others, straight or crooked, it's because they play the game the best--and the game is sordidly exciting...
...Godfather's opening was Henry Kissinger. So many people wanted to be seen talking to the White House adviser that the curtain was delayed about 15 minutes. Kissinger was also the power and glory of the party afterward at the St. Regis Hotel, where the waiters passed the pasta, dressed in gangland pinstripes with black shirts and white ties. "I thought I was going to get away from all this by coming to New York," said Henry the K, happily...
...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 for dinner perhaps four nights a week, and Franco, Justin's Italian chef, whips up a meatless pasta for her mostly vegetarian diet. She eats fish, but no meat. Most of their friends are in show business, but their notion of a good time is a quiet weekend at George Harrison's estate in Surrey...
...polls last week in municipal and regional elections, Italy's small but increasingly influential neo-Fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.), staged a victory celebration in Rome's swank Casina Valadier restaurant. Ordinarily the script might call for the premature celebrators to come up with pasta all over their faces, but, when the election results came in last week, the M.S.I.'s self-confidence proved to be justified. In Sicily, Rome and 157 other cities, a determined get-out-the-vote campaign helped lure more than 96% of the eligible voters to the polls...