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...crafted doorknob? It did seem sort of funny for a law-and-order mayor like Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, whose official salary is $434 a week. But according to a series of stories in the Philadelphia Daily News, he has invested more than $400,000 in a swank new home in the Chestnut Hill section-including $20,000 for a three-car garage, $30,000 for stonework and $7,000 for a patio. "These are pure and simple political charges made by a newspaper that blatantly seeks to influence the outcome of the mayoral election in November," responded...
...Newspapers rejected their advertising, the Chicago Transit Authority refused to display their posters, and a clutch of American Nazi Party members showed up to picket. Nonetheless, some 750 delegates of the American Communist Party managed to get together at Chicago's swank Ambassador Hotel for their first convention in three years. "Some people have said that we should love this country or leave it," intoned California Delegate Angela Davis, "[but] we are going to fight like hell to get this country back." Fighter Davis was bothered, though, by the fact that the party had chosen such an unproletarian meeting...
...curious about California, at least southern California, go see Shampoo, it won't lie to you. I went to Hollywood for the first time about a year ago with tickets to the Academy Awards. The day before the big show, I picked up a friend at a swank L.A. beauty parlor and there was this tall blonde guy named Phillippe or something leaning over her cooing, "I am going to make you beautiful, so beautiful." He believed what he was saying, and later when I saw my friend at a party after the Awards, I could tell that she believed...
...altar; but, she said, she had no intention of doing so now. Then she banned the Spanish language from the set: a clause in her contract stipulated that everyone connected with her in the movie speak English. When a lavish bash was held for her in a swank Madrid nightclub, Sarah showed up hours late wearing a white woolly hat. After the Spanish press had denounced her behavior, Sarah denied any malice aforethought. "I love Spam," she said tearfully. "Why is the world trying to make a monster woman...
When many of the chosen films are guaranteed swift commercial release, the festival is accused of being a kind of swank showcase, the plaything of movie distributors. At other times-this year's festival is an example-there are no ambitious films from Hollywood, few major works from the Continental masters. So the festival is blamed for being stodgy, esoteric and elitist...