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...wife Fran, 43, is somewhat in the background; the Benedict family is a decided patriarchy. A farmer's daughter, she worked as a stewardess for Braniff Airlines and met Pat during a layover in Fargo, N. Dak.; a sister of Pat's who worked at the hotel where Fran stayed introduced them. Fran is the secretary of Benedict Farms and does the bookkeeping. During planting and harvesting seasons she also runs the farm's communications network, relaying messages by private FM radio band between Pat's pickup truck, the other machines in the fields and the outside world?meanwhile whipping...
...Israeli attack was in retaliation for a terrorist assault on an El Al flight crew in London a day earlier. In that incident a stewardess was killed, and two other members of the crew and seven bystanders were wounded. The Israelis criticized the British for having failed to provide El Al air crews with proper security. The British do not permit Israeli security guards to carry firearms on their soil, but after the London attack they assigned armed guards to escort the airline's personnel...
...find terrorism all that funny. But, in a sequence that I suppose is meant to be a comment on the Italian social condition (none too great, these days), a strange man (Yorgo Voyagis) who doesn't speak Italian, French or English spots and subsequently seduces a radiantly beautiful Alitalia stewardess (Ornella Muti, the best thing about this film). The next morning, as she is about to board her plane, he rushes up to her, embraces her and then gives her a tape recorder playing the tune to which he had whisked her off her feet the night before...
...like an anthropologist listening to aborigines debate the possible function of an eggbeater. Still, she may have tarried too long among the Californicators. At one point she wonders: "How do I even know if I'm having a successful sex life?" Though most of the book depicts surfer-stewardess relationships among muddled narcissists, Seligson concludes that the "valiant gropings" of her subjects are truly heroic. She cannot join the free spirits herself, because demon jealousy still haunts her. But, she says, "I'll be rooting and cheering for them. From the sidelines...
...Western market, but in the U.S. the baby-faced Maharaj Ji, now 20, was once worshipped as the Lord of the Universe by 50,000 or so devotees of the Divine Light Mission. In 1975 his mother, Mataji, disapproving of his playboy ways and his marriage to an airline stewardess, deposed him in favor of his brother. Since then the name of the organization in the U.S. has been changed to the Spiritual Life Society, and it has been struggling to hold on to its dwindling following (about 200). To rally the faithful, Truth Incarnate spoke at Manhattan...