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...Everyone is everyone," says F. Hilary Stevens, a lady poet just this side of 70. "Only you and I are more so." The beneficiary of this advice is Mar Hemmer, a moony young man who has just concluded an alliance with a sailor. The two have that in common: Hilary was once married to a man, but manifestly prefers her own gender. They both write poetry too. Between Mar's visits, Hilary sandwiches an interview with two reporters from a literary magazine. This gives Poet-Novelist Sarton, who is just the other side of 53, an excuse to review...
Indeed, so small are the Seychelles, a British crown colony of 92 tropical islands 1,000 miles off the coast of East Africa, that they were forever getting lost. The Arabians of the 10th century thought that the islands were where Sindbad the Sailor discovered the mystical, magnetic mountain in the Sea of Zanj. Portuguese navigators found them in 1501, only to lose track of them again. British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon, who landed there 84 years ago, seriously believed that...
Thus there is a new breed of sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much...
Beginning her movie career with 1962's A Taste of Honey, elfin English Actress Rita Tushingham, 23, played an illegitimate teen-age girl left pregnant by a passing Negro sailor and befriended by a young homosexual. Well, that sort of squalor was one thing, but when Britain's Associated Television offered her the part of an Irish country girl who turns to drink, Tush demurely demurred. "I simply don't know how to act as if I am drunk," she explained teetotally. "I have never been drunk in my life and don't expect I ever...
...actors serve their roles superbly, easily overcoming the initial incongruity of diverse accents that is inherent in the new international style of casting.* Stockwell, if a little too prettily dimpled for his own good, is a sensitive fugitive and lover; Lindblom is as undomesticated a domestic as a young sailor on the lam could wish. Melvyn Douglas, one of Hollywood's smoothest eyebrow-archers in the drawing-room comedies of the '30s, began a promising new career as Hud's grizzled old man, is even better now. But Rapture really belongs to the blazing Miss Gozzi...