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Life Raft and Oil Slick. He climbed into one of his squadron's 60-ton, $2.3 million airplanes, revved up the engines and started taxiing around. As crew chief, he was authorized to do so. Keeping the plane in proper operating condition was his responsibility, and crew chiefs generally have a free hand with aircraft while on the ground. But suddenly he pointed the plane's nose down the runway and took off. Though the plane normally requires a flight crew of four, Meyer seemed to know what he was doing. He had some experience piloting light planes...
More than Tony. With his voice gone, McKuen concentrated more on his lonely poetry and song writing. Every time he sang, it sounded as if he needed to clear his throat-but the husky croak had a strange appeal for people who were sick of slick styling. The books and records came flooding out-and sold. McKuen is hardly modest about it, but why should he be? He is deliberately vague about how much money he made last year ("Two million? Three million? Four million? I don't know"), but he claims proudly that he sold...
GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Philip Roth's stinging, perceptive 1959 novella has been turned into a slick little film about the glories, detours and tribulations of young love. Director Larry Peerce is often self-indulgent, but he has extracted two attractive performances from Richard Benjamin and a stunning newcomer named Ali MacGraw...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...
...foundation's penchant for controversy is abetted by a flock of waggish personalities who are refreshingly aloof from the slick chat of commercial radio. KPFK Disk Jockey Lew Merkelson, an ex-truck driver who runs Los Angeles' most knowledgeable classical-music program, often invites local enthusiasts to come in and play their favorite records on the air. Newscasters at Pacifica stations report only top stories; at KPFK, they take pride in the fact that they never even mentioned Jacqueline Kennedy's wedding...