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...strength of a man. She is probably the most powerful woman skater who has ever existed." Packing a muscular 140 lbs. on her 5-ft. 6-in. frame, Sjoukje Dijkstra does not try to dazzle the judges with her femininity. She cuts the ice with her athletic ability and prim, peril feet routines. Other skaters warm up in buttons and bows, but Sjoukje wears a blue sweatsuit marked "Nederland." "It's just working hard that makes you good." she says, and when she is in training-as she is six hours a day, five days a week, seven months...
...TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is a huge billboard featuring a slinkily gowned, reclining platinum blonde who holds a mammoth glass of milk in her hand and endorses the consumption of that beverage. "Take her down," says Dr. Antonio to snickering city officials and discreet church fathers. One night, as Dr. Antonio tramps obsessively around the sign...
...many social scientists concerned with television's lingering pubescence, none has been more dogged than Connecticut's prim Senator Thomas Dodd, chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency. Three times in the past year, Senator Dodd has called television's mahatmas to Washington, and three times they have skittered away and gone safely back to New York, leaving the Senator pondering his persistent question: Why does television pander so to sex and violence? Last week Senator Dodd wanted to know what CBS-TV President James Aubrey had in mind in an interoffce memo asking for more...
Died. George Sylvester Viereck, 77, prim and cocky German propagandist in two world wars, a German-born naturalized U.S. citizen who turned to poetry and journalism, worshiped strong men and machines, drew fire for editing the Fatherland magazine for German-Americans in the World War I era, and in World War II was sent to prison for almost four years on conviction of failing to register as an agent on the payroll of Germany to distribute propaganda through U.S. mails; of a stroke; in Hoi-yoke, Mass...
Down There on a Visit is the best work this prim, prickly near mystic has done in years. Like all of Isherwood's books, it is coyly set in the form of autobiography-but-not-really; its narrator, as usual, is a ventriloquist's dummy named Christopher Isherwood whose surface sometimes seems faintly warm. Characteristically, there is too little fiction for a novel, too little truth for autobiography. Yet in his cagey, canny way, the author has written an engaging work of self-revelation...