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...about 40% of the county's population, and to them and their white neighbors, Jim Crow is alive and well despite the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Negroes still sit in the balcony when they go to the movies in Carthage (pop. 2,442), the county seat, and use separate waiting rooms when they visit local white doctors. Earlier this month, three Negro women were beaten when they brought their clothes to a white self-service laundry. Typically, the police did nothing...
When it happened, I was driving through northern Scotland in a rented car finding how utterly disorienting it was to work out of the right-hand seat. After a day of laboriously scanning Loch Ness for the Great Orm, I sat down with a British newspaper and a friend to read "Police Arrest 179 at Harvard." It might have been any other school, save for the comparatively big play and for a few proper nouns. I had often been instructed not to use the word "campus" in connection with Harvard, for Harvard was not supposed to have a campus...
Some of Baroche's interviews verge on the implausible: he claims to have found one couple who learned to make love in a tiny Citroën "Deux Chevaux" auto-after they persuaded the man's dog to remain in the back seat. Serious social scientists are not sure that Baroche interviewed a sufficiently wide variety of Frenchmen to reach any valid conclusions. Still, he talked to enough to find one man who asked, "How does it happen that I have never deceived my wife?" then shrugged and answered his own question: "I don't want...
There are no pay-TV stations currently operating in the U.S. In fact, the only thing approaching pay television is closed-circuit presentations of heavyweight-championship boxing matches and the Indianapolis 500 auto race, both of which are shown in movie houses for $5 to $10 a seat. (Last May, one Fort Worth theater marquee inadvertently carried two contradictory promotions: SAVE FREE TV and INDY 500 RACE CLOSED CIRCUIT TV.) The NATO contention that pay-TV would rob the poor is similarly leaky. With subscription TV, a whole family could see a film for $1.50 or so, far less than...
There's an enormous platter of live black eels in an inky sauce, and that's only the hors d'oeuvres. As the guests seat themselves at the banquet, their hostess urinates in a silver chamber pot. Slaves stumble over garbage-strewn floors bearing trays of delicacies from some gastronomic apocalypse: a white calf wearing a brass helmet, cows' udders aswim in a mucid green sauce. It is a picnic in the best traditions of ancient Rome and Federico Fellini, designed and executed for Satyricon, his first full-length film in four years...