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Gassman's Roman rakes include: 1) a dolt who goes home with a prostitute and finds that she is married to an old school chum; 2) a sodden playboy whose haymate, ample Antonella Lualdi, tumbles out of bed just in time to get dressed for her wedding; 3) an impatient Lothario who checks into a motel and seduces the chambermaid while his peevish girl friend waits in the car; 4) a barkeep who saves carfare by hitching a ride home every night with a car-couching whore, hops out at his front door feeling cheap but chaste...
...swallowed," he confesses in Spanish Harlem Incident. "Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss," he says To Ramona. His songs (which he defines as "anything I can sing") are, as usual, loosely constructed, with occasional memorable melodic phrases and mostly forgettable verse that runs stale and sodden for miles and then suddenly takes one by surprise. As for his nasal voice and wheezing harmonica, his fanatic following is evidence that a taste for them can be acquired...
There is still a smattering of opposition to Duvalier in Haiti. Once in a while someone scratches "Caca Doc" (a Creole obscenity) instead of Papa Doc on the wall, and in a Port-au-Prince bar last week a sodden upper-class mulatto suddenly raised his voice: "How long must we stand here and suffer and be killed?" But most Haitians have resigned themselves to a numbing life under Duvalier. The dictator's 5,000-man Tonton Macoute roams the country ferreting out opposition and collecting "donations" from terrified businessmen. Even Duvalier's own henchmen live in mortal...
Harvard played six innings of baseball against Yale yesterday before a colorfully dressed crowd which abruptly vanished when the lightning began to crackle and the rain to fall in great, sodden sheets...
Despite the sodden launching, it was amply evident that in the 2,483 years since Xerxes staged his own 180-day fair to celebrate his world conquest, New York's was certainly going to be the biggest, and perhaps the best, ever...