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...standard American bedtime cartoon: the wife whose cold-cream-slathered face makes a death mask look comparatively pert, and the husband who can't get the light out fast enough to miss the sight. These days the man in the picture would do well to take a second look - not to mention a healthy sniff. Chances are that the lady is no longer mulched in mineral oil and petroleum jelly but gently steeped in camomile tea and elder-flower lotion. The bedroom air, once heady with hints of lye, is more likely flavored with the scent of fresh strawberries...
...exactly an intimate rap session, as nearly 600 seamen, submariners and officers jammed a base theater at Pearl Harbor last week. But the pert WAVE spoke up boldly on behalf of two of her service friends with an unusual problem: "She works a day shift while her husband is on the night shift. Can't something be done?" The officer directed her to leave their names, and since that officer was none other than Admiral Elmo ("Bud") Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations and the U.S. Navy's uniformed boss, the pair will soon be on more compatible assignments...
...such as MNC and Referendum 70 managed to keep themselves busy all summer, though it certainly wasn't by dispatching college students to campaigns. Referendum 70 was particularly imaginative in finding things to do, swamping Studds headquarters with suggested media campaigns, organization charts and, what proved most popular, a "pert" chart detailing procedures for canvassing and election day (Sample: "Many elections have been won or lost on election...
...Kahn's production. Roberta Max-well has softened the character of Helena from the Women's Liberation aggressiveness the play wright probably intended. Miss Maxwell is pert and pretty; and she introduces into her demeanor touches of self-doubt that make her a warmer and more sympathetic person and take the edge off her duplicitous scheming. When she first appears before the King she does not curtsy but instead prostrates herself for an unconscionable length of time before the throne. Shaw would not have liked that. Coleridge proclaimed that Helena is Shakespeare's "loveliest character...
...full-time staff numbers only 26 (four of whom, including Kerr, are white). The first issue took its toll of editors in chief, losing both Bernadette Carey (of Vogue) and Ruth Ross (ex-Newsweek) to shakedown strife. "It was a good beginning," says Ida Lewis, 34, the pert, formerly Paris-based freelance writer just signed on as the new editor in chief, "but I want to emphasize the positive aspects of black femininity. The black woman already knows what she's up against...