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...campaign issue for the first time. This fall Democratic Challenger William Hathaway, a four-term Congressman, shrewdly avoided direct attacks on Mrs. Smith's age to prevent a sympathetic backlash, but played up his own age, 48, and his vigor. Another factor: Hathaway, a liberal of the Muskie stripe, had prepared for this election by maintaining high visibility. His 6 ft. 3 in. figure was seen everywhere around the state, and his flair for publicity got him frequent radio and newspaper coverage. Mrs. Smith, meanwhile, stayed far above the battle...
...Worden travels between Andalusia and La Mancha at a time when "Inquisition ruffians" scour the hills for outlaws, and banditry is rampant. He is waylaid, not by brutes of any stripe, but by two gorgeous Moslem sisters whom he meets underneath a deserted inn. They claim they are descended from the family of van Worden's Iberian mother, and wish to love and share him equally because they love each other...
Hunger. As the Navajos came increasingly in contact with roving traders, from whom they first acquired flannel-like red bayeta cloth in the 1830s, they began to weave more complex textiles known as "chief pattern blankets." To their traditional stripes they added squares, diamonds and zigzags. They worked proudly and boldly. "Even in early plain stripe blankets," say Berlant and Kahlenberg, "Navajo weaving had an aggressiveness that set it apart from its Pueblo model. [These blankets] have a force and color that is full and exuberant but always under control...
Wild Child. Truffaut's fine chronicle of a wolf-child's education in enlightened eighteenth century France. Truflaut himself stars as Dr. Jean hard: Jean-Pierre Cargol is splendid as his lupine charge. With Stolen Kisses, a Truffaut of a slighter stripe. CINEMA 733. Tuesday. Call...
...with his own voice, full of pathos expressed in the right phrases. "So it goes," the Tralfamadorian "lament" for death repeated by Vonnegut whenever he's forced to report it, is at first a "would you believe twenty killings?" shtik--only to become a Shantih, Shantih of a different stripe and level...