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...admit that Violinist Paul Zukofsky does not have much of a personal image. He is a sad-eyed, dour, defensive loner who will run from a circle of party chatterers rather than make small talk. When he emerges from the wings to perform, it is not with the elegant stride of a Milstein or the open-armed warmth of a Stern. It is with a rapid, open-toed, Chaplinesque shuffle. When Zukofsky plays, his music often consists of a series of brash scrapes, sharp squeaks and galloping glissandos that Mozart, Brahms and Tchaikovsky never dreamed of. Sometimes, it seems that...
Kennedy's trips, says Sidey, "were boisterous affairs, full of disorganization and laughter and youth and hope. There was elegance and eloquence. Johnson liked spectacles. He was a man in seven-league boots employing his power as President of the United States to stride across the world and preach: 'Come, let us reason together.' " As for this week's flight with Richard Nixon, Sidey reports that preparations have been like the campaign: "cool, meticulous, competent. The trip has been plotted with care and it is expected to unwind with precision...
Quickening Stride. Criticism of PAD rolls right off Hefner's back. "I know how good the show is," he says. "It's better than the Johnny Carson Show or the Joey Bishop Show, and I do a better job hosting than Ed Sullivan does." He is so convinced that the show will be a success (and indeed, the ratings have been remarkably good) that he is already planning 26 more for next season, intends to expand Playboy's TV and movie operations. He is talking about buying a Hollywood studio...
...INSIDE front cover of a glossy brochure describing Miramar Naval Air Station, there is a picture of one of the many military home-comings Miramar hosts every month. Five smiling and lei-draped young men--"MIG-killers returning from Vietnam," the brochure says--stride away from their parked fighter planes and towards the kind of reward that Miramar, with its bowling alleys and movie theaters, offers those who have earned a hero's welcome...
...table covered with green cloth, surrounded by eight straight-backed chairs. Through the bay windows of the salon, Madame Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant white swans. Most of the petit bourgeois neighborhood took the Viet Cong's arrival in stride, but when the N.L.F. hung out its flag, a French patriot across the street indignantly hung one French tricolor from his roof and another from his front gate...