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...Hotel headquarters shortly after Richard Nixon had been nominated, the Californian was greeted by milling campaign workers, still carrying placards. The signs, different from those that had been hoisted a few hours before, read: "Reagan for President in 1972." The Governor's reaction: "Oh, for heaven's sake...
...Church, maintains that marijuana is no incentive to Christian values. "It doesn't particularly involve one with responsibility for one's fellow man," he says. "The liberation of the Gospel has to do with being liberated to care and not being liberated for ecstasy for its own sake...
Belonging to that unhappy second category Paul Schmidt's production screws around a lot, and most of it is pretty second-rate. Shakespeare's vicious savage, often Websterian tragedy is, for God's sake, not the lightweight collection of ideas on this stage, and when the play does assume characteristics of the darkest and most destructive comedy (as the program notes fashionably term the entire play) in the last few scenes, Schmidt reverses the entire style of his own production to heavy and symbolic drama, groping I presume for an ending via sudden spurts of electronic music and taped dialogue...
...draw the line on miniskirts. In a survey conducted by the Administrative Management Society, 52% of the 372 firms polled had no objections to skirts two to three inches above the knee. But most frowned on the micro-miniskirt, which one executive defined as the "for-goodness'-sake-don't-bend-over style." Nowhere do miniskirts raise more eyebrows than in the Ford Foundation's new Manhattan headquarters, where secretaries work in glass-enclosed offices. Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful but unprotective typewriter pedestal, recently sewed a minicurtain...
...with a gleaming steel microphone stand was strangely uplifting. Perhaps this is the mystical turn-on that violence is said to give. One can reasonably hope that such exhibitions as the Who's will only serve as emotional releases and not create a taste for violence for its own sake...