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...growing acceptance of your theories on "negative social pressure." Just last night in Quincy House, I was sitting with a group of about eight guys when this really ugly girl walks up to the salad bar. At first a few of the guys were just making the normal sack and rode jokes, but then one of my brighter friends made a good point, which he properly attributed to you "What we need," he said, "is some negative social pressure to get these grotesque women out of here." Most of us are of the opinion that it could work...
...Miss Edna, the real-life madam of the Chicken Ranch, proves too proper for the columnists, the author steps in with scattershot malice. He tells Women's Wear Daily that Actress Alexis Smith, star of the national touring company, "can't carry a tune in a goddamn sack." The antics end at a sad and quiet Maryland retreat, "where they teach you not to drink whisky...
Technically, Evans resigned; under the terms of purchase, Murdoch cannot sack the top editor without approval of a majority of the paper's national directors. But Murdoch's intent became plain during a four-day farce after the owner announced that Evans had resigned (for an undisclosed buy-out reported to be about $450,000), while Evans kept insisting he was still editor...
MOST OF THE people in line at the Sack Beacon Hill asked for tickets to Das Boot Pronouncing it like what cowboys wear, probably ready to see another complex, harshly intellectual film, as they have come to expect from recent German filmmakers. Once in the dark, however, they discovered that Boot not only means "boat," but is pronounced just like the English word; and, moreover, that this is a good old-fashioned action-packed American-style war movie. Complete with a tough, taciturn captain, young bloom-of-manhood sailors just doing their duty, suspense, explosions, and the general message that...
...audience for this movie, moreover, is not entirely accustomed to watching subtitled films--this is being shown at a Sack Theater, not at the Orson Welles. Das Boot is being promoted as a movie that happens to come from Germany, not as a "foreign film," with all the connotations of all-art-and-no-plot that the term carries for American. If the same audiences who like action-packed movies are willing to read subtitles and be depressed, Das Boot will be a hit in America...