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...some of the research for the Hughes book, and he is the only person besides Irving who supposedly met Howard Hughes during the project. It was allegedly a brief encounter in a Palm Springs, Calif., motel room where. Suskind has sworn. Hughes offered him an organic prune. Suskind will testify this week in Manhattan. Others who drifted in and out of the Ibiza circle included Robert Kirsch, a longtime friend of Irving's and the book editor of the Los Angeles Times...
...Irving's motel on the fringes of a city in the U.S. During this period, Hughes prodded Irving to change his rental car every day. Hughes refused to meet Irving's wife, but by chance he did encounter Richard Susskind, a researcher Irving had hired. "Would you like a prune?" Hughes asked. "Yes," said Susskind, "if it is an organic prune...
Which is not to say that Millhouse isn't at times also quite compassionate. It does tend to laugh at the prune faced conventioneers and D.A.R.'s who applaud Nixon's jeremiads against dope peddlers, his paeons to private enterprise, and his assurances that the only thing "worse than atomic war would be surrender." But, by film's end, it also sees such unsympathetic figures--as well as the urban poor at the Thanksgiving Dinner and even the Nixons themselves--as victims of a culture and a government that no man would want to wish on even his worst...
Soledad is a part of the California that is not California, that is, it is a place not of movie stars or cablecars, but of pears and prunes, pear-pickers and prune-pickers. Walled in by the Diablo and Santa Lucia ranges, it is burned and dusty throughout the summer and rainy in winter. Soledad is not the kind of place to which one would go to leave one's heart...
...toward the "more sophisticated" look. Longer skirts, heavier fabrics and the once again popular basic black demand an accenting feature, and this season it will be a colorful face. No firm seems more confident of that trend than London's Biba Cosmetics, which already is selling lipsticks in Prune and Magenta shades. This fall, Biba will add to its lipstick line two colors that are bound to make men happy to see red: Matisse Green and Royal Blue...