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...right knee bent, so her willowy 6-ft. figure would not tower over shorter men. In addition, she touched a few bases that Henry missed, managing to meet with a passel of VIPs and not-so-VIPs, ranging from the Baron and Baroness Edmond de Rothschild (at a swank restaurant near Jerusalem) to Dr. Mieczyslaw Rodziewicz, a young Polish archaeologist who was working near Alexandria. She commiserated with his exasperation upon discovering a new apartment building above a potentially rich...
...Sitting here sifting through an envelope bulky with promotional material--billions of those gaping ruby tongues, the usual bizarre scrawlings (remember the postcards from "Exile on Main Street?"), four incredible glossies of Mick, copies of the raves from New York...Facts: 90 minutes, quadraphonic sound (the unit is so swank that it travels with the show, hence the limited engagement), 1972 tour, a lot of fast numbers, no dumb shots of the audience, Music Hall, through Tuesday, 7:30, five and a half bucks, no reserved seats, available at Ticketron but going fast. Clearly a peak experience...
Jeans and denim skirts seem to have become a permanent part of many women's wardrobes, but the pure proletarian look is quickly receding. The new, rather reactionary yen is to set off casual clothes with touches of camp or swank. Result: a growing trend toward offbeat tops as snazzy, jazzy, individualistic mates for the denims. During the summer this took the form of T shirts with silk-screen designs (Marilyn Monroe pinups, for example), funny messages ("Keep on Truckin' ") or advertising slogans ("Try it, you'll like it"). For fall and winter the fad is expanding...
...pervading violence has seldom spilled over to London, such isolated outrages as the bombing last spring of the Old Bailey court building have made Londoners aware of the potential for serious trouble. Last week that potential was realized. First a rash of 17 mini-bombs sowed confusion across the swank West End. Only six exploded, none doing serious damage. One that was detected and defused turned up at No. 10 Downing Street inside a book on Composer Gustav Mahler mailed anonymously to Prime Minister Edward Heath, a Mahler devotee...
Larry Miller '73, former director of the Quincy Cinema Guild, maintains that the distributors are aware of the violations, but don't care. "Dan Kelley of Swank [another distributor] knows everybody does it," he says...