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Ivan the Terrible. Accessories are as full of movement as the clothes themselves. Hats are young and flattering, tend to frame the face instead of sweeping down to smother it. Ricci's "Ivan the Terrible" model is a fat acorn of fur, and Cardin's "Davy Crockett" curls an entire fox (in brown, red or black) around the head. Feet, as well as bodies, are treated considerately once more after seasons of cramping toes into shoes that darted into stiletto points or simply blunted off the second joints, the rounded-toe look is back-although Dior...
Bubble Gum Drama. In his cartoons, Feiffer's squiggly figures smother in clouds of language. Transplanted to the stage, they are long-wounded blabbers, who talk about themselves in cocktail party words that taste like the 14th anchovy. A few of Feiffer's targets have been pocked heavily by other satirists, and one blackout aimed at the telephone company, a monolith that fascinates all of the new comics, uses a punch line similar to one of Nichols' and May's. But it is not safe to smile comfortably as the actors poke fun at Freud, advertising...
...days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production is growing, and that a new, hard-headed American assistance program has replaced the surrealistic spending of post-Geneva days all tend to smother such easily-missed items as a recent Vietnamese government report complaining of a "lack of security in certain rural areas...
...Novelist Sheed deposes, are a dim lot, meanly concerned with security and job worthiness, impervious to general ideas, irreligious but without any definite atheist convictions, leading a sex life that is Casanovanic in theory but monastic in fact, boorishly bathed in beer, sweating out a degree and fighting to smother a lower-middle-class background with the correct set of socially acceptable diphthongs. The non-hero of this cad's paradise is John Chote, president of the junior common room at Sturdley College, an ancient, deliquescent foundation with a Victorian Gothic façade, where no memher...
...perhaps bad form to say so, but there is one campaign issue which must not smother in the post-election Era of Good Feeling. The nation must not forget the systematic deception of the public practiced for eight years by the Eisenhower government. This is one of those evils against which angry dissent is more effective than understanding and tolerance; for the trouble is that Eisenhower is leaving as popular as he came. Unless the press and the public rub the point in, American governments will learn just how easy it is to fool all of the people...