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...Representative Wilbur C. Mills, who may have kept America from sinking farther into a British-like welfare-state morass-and saved the value of our dollar. (MRS.) PATRICIA C. PEACOCK Kailua, Hawaii...
...only predictable that every now and then man will decide to change it. After all, male vanity has always rivaled and frequently exceeded the female variety. One of the many theories now advanced in explanation of the new display of male plumage rests on the premise that the human peacock is merely showing his true feathers. "Perhaps man is coming into his biological destiny, suppressed in our Puritan milieu," says Psychologist Robert D. Meade of Western Washington State College. "It is the male in all nature, you know, who spreads his gorgeous tail feathers and erects his ruff...
...labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags, crucifixes, and a marijuana-flavored cookie. As the strains of God Bless America and Hari Krishna echoed from the pastel hillsides of the Hashbury, the casket was set on fire and a shout went up: "Hippies are dead: now the Free...
...blackouts, flashbacks and stop action (mostly eye-popping closeups of female posteriors and anteriors), Kelly in effect has choreographed the film along the lines of a fast-paced modern dance. He enlivened one terpsy-turvy scene, for example, by having Art Carney prance after his mistress like an oversexed peacock...
John Braden has designed an effective set, and his lighting is most dramatic. Lew Smith's costumes are, as usual, colorful enough to make a peacock blush and wonderful to behold...