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...Moscow embassy for two years, and had been spying for the Russians for seven. Vas-sall's superiors, and all but one of the officers who picked him out of 40 applicants for the Moscow assignment, were exonerated by the tribunal, which judged him "weak" but not overtly queer. However, admitted the report, Vassall's young colleagues in the embassy ridiculed his "effeminate" ways and called him "Vera." The passionate Pole soon guessed his secret, and life began anew for Vera Vassall. Eager to share his new conquest, Sig introduced Vassall to other gay types. "I shall never...
...over-France, the Alps, Sicily-and I'd never done any of that before. Now, in Hollywood, someone else would get a new model and maybe I wouldn't-you know. And in the States if you worry about wines, people think you're queer or something." Wagner lives in Rome, which has long since sacked Hollywood. Nearly twice as many films were made in Rome last year as were made in California. It is an O.K. city to work in, but the more or less permanent new Romans seem to give off an odor of being...
...theorems are found in a queer branch of top mathematics called "topology." A French mathematician, Jordan, gave the fundamental theorem of this study: every simple curve has an inside and an outside. That is, ever simple curve divides the plane into two regions, one inside the curve, and one outside...
...have had it with aristocracies. Corrupt, sleek, lascivious queer or cruel, Italian, French or Spanish, they all amount to the same thing on the screen: vacuity writ large. But the most banal set of all lives in Argentina. Its members are as vapid, unsophisticated and coarse a covey of brightly feathered birds as I have seen in film. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (director of End of Innocence) records their antics in Summerskin, a cheap and pretentious story in the worst possible taste...
Agreeable Evasiveness. When the government fell in 1834, half-demented King William IV picked Melbourne as Prime Minister because he liked him. "I think it's a damned bore," sighed Melbourne. The populace agreed. "He is certainly a queer fellow to be Prime Minister," remarked a politician. His job, Melbourne believed, was chiefly to keep peace among his quarrelsome Cabinet ministers. By a policy of "agreeable evasiveness," he shored up his shaky government, weathered crises no one expected him to survive. He backed reform measures when he had to, but most of the time he happily saw them defeated...