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...perhaps most striking of the collaborators is photographer Gordon Willis. His lighting captures the muffled diffusion of city sun, the dank swank of a resort ballroom, the verdant warmth of a mid-afternoon in the park. Last year his talent was used only to dress up the dross of End of the Road -a film which burst apart by emphasizing the presence of violence, and not its causes; here he contributes to the success of a minor masterpiece which takes a very cool, bitterly funny look at some very harsh truths...
...sold Santa Claus to a local businessman who hired a high school student to wear the red suit and white beard during the tourist season. Santa's Kitchen, formerly a children's restaurant, now sports a swank cocktail lounge called the Reindeer Room overlooking the ocean. The merry-go-rounds are mostly idle; the train rarely makes the rounds of its tracks any more; the volume of mail trickled, then was shut off when the substation closed a year ago. Santa Claus, Calif., today is just an ordinary tourist attraction and the owner of a souvenir shop makes...
...Fifth Avenue of the counterculture. There the variety is dazzling, further enhanced by the almost universal adoption of the braless look. Manhattan's lively East Village is another showcase for the undershirt underground, but the shirts are no longer the exclusive property of the kids. In the swank summer resorts of East Hampton, Southampton and Stonington, Captain America shirts are showing up. At the America's Cup races in Newport, Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr. wore a gold Superman tank top; Brooke Hayward, Jill St. John and Raquel Welch (with an explosive "POW" on her version) are into...
...embassy will move from its present cramped quarters, which housed the servants of a large villa before the U.S. took it over, to a half-block-long building on Norodom Avenue. The man in command, succeeding Charge d'Affaires Lloyd Rives, will be newly appointed Ambassador Emory ("Cobey") Swank, 48, who was Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's second in command in Russia as deputy chief of mission and is now one of the State Department's ranking Soviet experts. He also served as Washington's No. 2 man in Laos from...
Settling the Conflict. The increases in floor space and funds hardly betoken U.S. involvement on the scale of Viet Nam or Laos. In fact, the appointment of Sovietologist Swank may indicate that the U.S. is acutely sensitive to Moscow's difficult position in Cambodia as a result of Peking's sponsorship of Sihanouk, and that Washington is keeping alive its hope that Moscow may yet help in settling the conflict in Indochina. There is evidence that the Cambodians are not anxious, either, for the U.S. presence to grow too noticeable. "If the Americans send in troops, that could...