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...they walked back to the car Carlo felt a little like Rex Humbard, or Oral Roberts, or maybe Billy Graham. He glanced at his mother, who by now was beaming like the lady in the wheelchair who gets up and hollers "I Believe" every night at the Oral Roberts meeting, and at his father, who looked pretty well converted too. In fact, Lou looked like he'd been born-again, all fire and enthusiasm and eagerness to give all he owned for the cause...
...attractive women in the traditional ao dai-a long, slit-skirted dress. In sharp contrast with Hanoi, where I found nearly everything in short supply, Saigon's peddlers hawk an abundance of goods, from government-sponsored lottery tickets to ceramic elephants and noodle soup. The 250-seat Rex Cabaret continues to operate, featuring some of the performers who once entertained American troops. On a recent evening, for example, Cathy Hue belted out her rendition of Granada to about a dozen tea-sipping Australian tourists...
They try to exorcise loneliness by seeking some point or purpose in their lives. Olga (Rosemary Harris) idealistically teaches school but dreams of a home and family. Miserable in her marriage to a pedantic schoolmaster (Rex Robbins), Masha (Ellen Burstyn) stumbles into a hopeless, heart-wrenching affair with the garrison's Lieut. Colonel Vershinin (Denholm Elliott). The youngest sister, Irina (Tovah Feldshuh), seeks to be ennobled by the "dignity of work" in the local telegraph office...
...same thing you do when a man breaks your heart-you go out and get another one." So says Elizabeth Ashley, 37, about the collapse of one of her shows. And just two days after the Broadway closing of G.B. Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (co-starring Rex Harrison), Ashley appeared in Chicago as one of three Texas sorority sisters who grow up and apart in a Jack Heifner play called Vanities. And when Vanities closes? After 17 roles in the past three years, says Ashley, she is "ready to plant my butt under some palm tree...
...President is back in his study for a meeting with Press Aides Jody Powell and Rex Granum...