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...Southern befriended some of the greatest writers, artists, and musicians of the day, spending hours sharing their pet indulgences. His status as a cooler-than-cool pop-culture icon was solidified by his appearance (shades and all) in the pantheon of heroes that populate the cover of the "Sgt. Pepper" album. Hill emphasizes that Southern created the "grand guy" persona to deal with an innate shyness; Southern's collaborator Nelson Lyon is quoted as saying that as Southern grew older, he became a victim of his alter ego, "trapped in the cliches and hip jargon" that defined...
...nymphette, while scripter Buck Henry (dare this hardcore Southern fan say it) actually improves upon the novel in two bizarrely funny sequences: Candy's worshipful encounter with drunk Welsh poet McPhisto (Richard Burton), leading to a more-than-peculiar basement menage a quatre involving her Mexican gardener (a "Pepper"-era Ringo Starr doing an incredibly awful accent); and her "lesson" with a guru (Marlon Brando) whose accent keeps changing from East Indian to New Yawk in mid-sentence. Henry and director Christian Marquand's work on the rest of the movie isn't nearly as successful, or true to Southern...
...constructing model airplanes. Second-graders try their hand at sculpting while learning about Rodin. First-graders are taught to manage personal bank accounts with play money they can use to buy toys at the student store. Rita Kanell, a first-grade teacher, recalls the joy of watching her students pepper a visiting composer with questions about Beethoven and Vivaldi...
...least vis-a-vis African Americans. There remain glaring disparities among other minority groups, but now that the media light's been off this issue for a while, one wonders whether the networks will have made any more progress this year - and whether the press will care, or just pepper execs with hard-hitting questions about where "Survivor 4" will be held...
GUNPLAY OVER FOREPLAY In the competitive world of defensive lingerie, Paxton Quigley, author, self-defense activist and former Yoko Ono bodyguard, stands out for designing the latest in brassiere empowerment. The SuperBra features a strategically placed holster that accommodates a .38-cal. revolver or a canister of pepper spray. Says Quigley: "People say that once they get used to the idea of carrying a gun between their breasts, they forget they're even carrying...