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...there are problems with reading several columns successively in book form. The rapid succession of brief thoughts, as well as the sometimes incessant recycling of well-turned phrases, dulls some-what the respect for his writing. The book is not necessarily for reading but for browsing, like a New Yorker collection of cartoons...
...wife (Dyan Cannon), who has a kind of pelvic instinct for talent. She passes some heavy hints along to hubby (Robert Ryan), who sees Stone as the right man to boost the ratings.When hubby suffers his executive coronary, Stone slips right into his chair and his bed. His insatiable and some-what kinky appetites, however, get him into a good deal of trouble once hubby...
...UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY concentrates on the social sciences at its Center for Chinese Studies. Chalmers Johnson, the center's chief, regularly reports on the Chinese and Japanese press over National Educational Television. Though the center is housed in some-what seedy off-campus offices, its 18,000-volume library is outstanding. One seasoned specialist is John Stewart Service, a State Department officer purged in 1951, who testified two weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 2). Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, who advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become...
...time for writing may be some-what limited in the future, however, now that he has inherited the most complex nutshell among law libraries-one which caters to a relentlessly demanding clientele...
Outside their own movies, however, even this formidable trio has had little effect; where the game really counts-producing or directing-the female ranks are thin indeed. Lillian Gish directed one film ( Remodeling Her Husband, 1921), and Ida Lupino has half a dozen films to her some-what dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood...