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Words or Shoes. In recent years, Dine's paintings have grown more lyrical-often downright erotic. A six-week sojourn in London in 1966 produced a series of blithe drawings that limned private parts of the human anatomy rather more explicitly than is customary. Within a few days of their exhibition, London police confiscated 21 of the works, but a judge later ruled that the works in themselves were not indecent...
...them all?particularly the kids. Jane is no longer content to play an ectomorphic Bardot. As a new mother, she resembles a full page in McCall's rather than a Playboy foldout. And the expatriate stance has vanished. "America is where I belong," she says, after a six-year sojourn in France. "This is where it has to happen." The girl who turned down the leading role in Bonnie and Clyde and Rosemary's Baby is not about to let a plum go by her again. "I'll take on anything," she states, "even a musical." Peter, whose volatility could...
Malta was to have been a peaceful sojourn for the prince after the excitement of his 21st birthday celebration. A little water skiing, relaxed ceremonies marking the bicentenary of the island's university, a quiet stroll through the National Museum, where cameras caught him, rapt, reaching out to touch a gracefully attenuated nude by a local sculptor. But in church-of all places -Prince Charles ran into a barrage of stink bombs. Nothing personal against the Prince, explained some fun-loving students from the Royal University of Malta. They were just miffed because they'd been left...
...season draws to a close. The bettors return to spacious Belmont and the city. The wealthy and other acquaintances of Jay Gatsby, refurbished by the springs, find the strength to attempt a sojourn abroad. The road narrows behind the back window of the Continental and the dark foggy night beckons with promises of tomorrow and next year...
...price of a sojourn at Cottontail Ranch averages $20. The four prostitutes range in age from 22 to 24, are on call twelve hours a day, and split their earnings with Landlady Richards. "When business is slow," says one girl, "we read a lot. Sometimes we play Scrabble. Every day Beverly leads us in calisthenics." But business is rarely slow, according to federal tax agents, who monitor the books. "It's a real challenge for our agents," says J. C. Muyres, Internal Revenue Service official in Las Vegas. "The houses are cash operations with no set prices...