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...dead son, killed in civil war, the music interrupts to shatter one of the film's few poignant moments. Cromwell squanders most of its energy on background and battle. The gathering of legislators is truly a parliament of fowls, with the Earl of Manchester (Robert Morley) as a peacock of surpassing foppishness. The engagements between the Royalists and the Roundheads are conveyed with lapidary detail, down to the last cavalryman...
...young reader. But it is not meant to be. The magazine, explains Publisher Baron Wolman, 33, is aimed at the young who regard fashion as "an opportunity for self-expression, fulfillment of little head trips, a chance to try something different, to break tradition and stereotype." Adds Editor Mary Peacock, 27, a former staffer at Harper's Bazaar: "Fashion is not fashionable any more. The slick magazines are always telling you how you should look. We do it the other way around. We report what people are wearing without trying to change them...
Rags' rock overtones reflect its origins. Publisher Wolman, a freelance San Francisco photographer, is one of the creators of the rock-oriented bi-weekly Rolling Stone. In fact, after Miss Peacock, Contributing Editor Daphne Davis and Columnist Blair Sabol approached him with the idea for a new fashion journal, Wolman tapped several Rolling Stone investors to launch Rags for $54,000. Printed in San Francisco, the first two issues sold 50,000 copies each, mostly through newsstands in California and New York, and August circulation climbed to 60,000. Thanks to a spare budget of $16,000 an issue...
...literary credo that comedy could not exist without equality of the sexes. Among Victorian writers, he was conspicuous for creating women characters who could think -"the lady with brains," as he described his heroine in The Egoist. Meredith married one himself-the daughter of another comic novelist, Thomas Love Peacock. She collaborated with him on a study of the art of cookery, bore him a son, then deserted him for a painter...
They began playing together in 1954, and by 1957 had improvised their way into national prominence as the mockingbirds of the American aviary. When they were around, no peacock, no eagle was secure. In their Broadway show, An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May, they did scenes in the style of O'Neill, and Batman, Proust, Pirandello and Noel Coward. Each swatch of material had a shiny button?as when Nichols, playing an English dentist, leans over his beloved patient: "I knew even then that I loved you. There, I've said it. I do love...