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Soup is about a bachelor gourmet editor (Gig Young) on the rueful side of 40, who thinks that variety is the spice of sex life until he meets The Girl. Barbara Ferris is a fetching house urchin who wears her microskirt so short that the evening seems like a continual panty raid. Her undies scan better than the dialogue, which unravels along such lines as, She: "You only want me for one thing." He: "Yes, but what a lovely thing." If the polish is in Ferris' frame, the spit is in her delivery. She has a snort like...
...flower people, a tattooed drifter full of love and laughter who turned on to every stimulant-from simple, undrugged fun to crystallized "speed" (methedrine, a high-powered amphetamine), which he occasionally sold for profit. Hippies called him "Groovy." Linda Rae Fitzpatrick, 18, was the daughter of a Greenwich, Conn., spice merchant, a blonde and dreamy-eyed dropout from Maryland's exclusive Oldfields School. Alienated by whatever obscure forces from her parents-both of whom had previously been divorced -she had traded the security of exurbia for the turned-on squalor of hippie life in the East Village...
...BIRDS, THE BEES AND THE ITALIANS. Adultery-Italian style, by Divorce-Italian Style Director Pietro Germi. Virna Lisi supplies the sugar and spice. Really quite nice...
...splendors led the Arabs to call it "One Half of the World." The night sky flares bright in the oilfields of Abadan, where the Zoroastrians built fire temples over ducts of natural gas. A railroad is stretching out across the treacherous Dasht-i-Kavir Desert, once traversed only by spice caravans from the Orient. A giant dam now irrigates the rolling grainlands below Shush, the ancient capital of the Elamites, where Daniel had his second vision...
...this, Douglas always adds a touch of spice. A deft, breezy interviewer, he pumps a starlet about her rumored romance or quizzes the Rolling Stones about rag-mop hairdos. On another occasion, he startled Guest Hubert Humphrey by casually commenting that "the President says you can make a speech as easily as you take a breath." The Vice President muttered, "Did the President say that?" After a long pause he added: "Then it's true...