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Congeniality does not come easily to Flip. Born in Jersey City, N.J., one of 16 children, he started on the foster-home circuit when he was seven. He lived with a family of Holy Rollers and a fortune teller. At 16 he lied about his age and joined the Air Force, where a white Southern major took him in hand, tutored him in grammar and diction and sent him to typing school...
...come back to us, Robert A. Heinlein, amateur astronomer, former naval person, practical engineer, supreme cynic, ideological flibbertigibbet, magnificent story-teller. It will be too much to take if the bad madness of the nation has ruined...
...White House to the Chicago split-level whose car boasts a bumper sticker that proclaims: "Mini yes, Midi no!" "I feel this is a graceful length for me," says Pat Nixon. Says her daughter, Julie Eisenhower: "I think most midis are ugly, dowdy." Bill Fine, president of Bonwit Teller, thinks?one might say hopes?that "the longer lengths have manners, more style. Perhaps it has something to do with moral awareness." A protest signed by 335 customers of the Sanger-Harris store in Dallas reads: "We object strongly to being suppressed into buying the midi exclusively. We like looking feminine...
Manhattan stores such as Bonwit Teller, Lord & Taylor and Ohrbach's have also been advertising the midi lustily, and more directly. Proclaimed Ohrbach's: "THE KNEE is DEAD...
Russ Meyer describes with immediacy and candor the ethos of the majoritorian American. He is not an artist, he makes few aesthetic decisions, rather Meyer is a story teller with the same preconceptions and prejudices as his characters. Though his ambitions for film as a creative medium are minimal, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls crystalizes a moment in the history of American aspirations and manners...