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Among the other treasures: crystal flutes; a ceramic horn from Germany, painted with blue flowers and glazed; fish-shaped slit drums from Japan; 5-in.-long fiddles that 18th century dancing masters carried in their pockets; Indian randsringas, a form of trumpet (left); New Guinea bull-roarers (wood carvings designed to roar when swung over the head on a string); and walking sticks that unfold into violins for instant serenades...
...sellers resplendent in double-breasted red vests, white visors and multicolored sleeve garters, looking as if they should be dealing out chips at a poker table. Male travelers will be diverted by 24 to 50 "passenger representatives" (Amtrak will not call them stewardesses) wearing a variety of outfits: side-slit red gowns over blue panty hose, skirts and cardigans, red hot pants. The young women are being trained for Amtrak by Continental Airlines...
...horseback again, they enter a small village which has been the scene of an enormous massacre. Horses bellies are slit open, guts hanging out. Humans lie full of bullet holes. The riders dismount and wade through the puddles of blood to explore the carnage. Due to the gaudiness of the color (which continues throughout the film) the blood looks quite a bit like Ocean Spray cranberry juice. (It may in fact be Ocean Spray cranberry juice.) But one thing is definitely real--the slaughtered animals. This is Mexico, not the Land of the Free. There is no strong ASPCA leaning...
...Washington cocktail circuit, she has been no less a source of speculation in recent months than Teddy himself. One day, she is a shy, self-styled homebody. The next, she is playing the piano on nationwide television, or shocking Washington with dresses cut down to there or slit up to here. Asks one annoyed Democrat: "What is Joan Kennedy all about? Is she trying to make sure her husband does not get nominated...
...Washington last week to discuss his country's alliance with the U.S. But who could concentrate on such matters when he brought along his wife, Sonia, a tall, smashing, 39-year-old blonde, who appeared at the White House in a white crepe evening gown that was slit up both sides, all the way from Melbourne to Brisbane? "I chose it for her," said McMahon, 63, a bachelor until six years ago. "I would never have been so daring," murmured Sonia, not very convincingly...