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...presidential ban on political rallies. His followers rioted in Lima; in one violent demonstration 20 were injured, 100 arrested. After three days on the island, Belaúnde decided to make a move. While guards were looking the other way during an exercise period, he raced down to the shore, tore off his shoes and plunged into the chill Pacific, crying dramatically: "I have chosen freedom!"-only to have a nearby yachtsman return him to prison. All through the next week, Acción Popular demonstrations continued, until the government let him go just to be rid of him. Returning...
...Stirring. From those tiny things, the two men boldly re-created a vast era of prehistory. In that remote period, they say, the region that is now the northwest shore of Lake Superior was covered by a shallow sea or perhaps a chain of lakes. The dry land was devoid of life; the atmosphere may have been unbreathable for most mod ern creatures. But in shallow pools, say the paleontologists, a dim kind of life was stirring. The bottom was covered with hard hummocks - mounds made of tight-packed vertical columns, a fraction of an inch in diameter, that were...
Women they are, but none of De Kooning's Venuses are ever likely to be zephyred toward shore on a half shell, though it is just possible some of them might have been pushed off a 40-story building. When De Kooning discovered Marilyn Monroe as a subject in the mid-1950s, and long before pop artists cottoned to her contours, he painted her as half Lilith, half maneater, with a pneumatic maw worthy of Kali...
...first anguished twinge comes one evening when he invites Connor to the top-drawer Shore Club for the perverse I purpose of seeing him bankrupted at backgammon. Instead, Connor winds up $4,000 ahead, the well-born clubmen welsh on their losses, and Thompson begins to question himself. The answers he tries out are, successively, drinking, urinating on the Shore Club walls, and letting himself be cuckolded by, of all people, Connor. The disintegration of Lock Thompson evokes less pity or terror than tedium. Though Author Wetmore has a palate for sour-mash dialogue, he puts into a quart bottle...
Monday, February 15 THE DINAH SHORE SPECIAL (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Dinah and Harry Belafonte salute the Peace Corps in a program featuring songs in Swahili, Hindi and Tagalog...