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...trees (each labeled with a metal plate) on the Pitsunda peninsula, 18 miles southeast of Gagra on the Black Sea. On three sides the estate is bordered by a vast state farm; the fourth side is a gentle, U-shaped bay. The beach is broad but rocky; to protect tender feet, boardwalks lead to the water's edge. Four piers, each with a cozy pavilion, jut out into the sea. Dotting the beach are cabanas, each outfitted with swimming trunks and soft towels. In one, presumably the Premier's, is a white emergency telephone. Phones in blue boxes...
...from being the sordid shocker it might seem, Lulu contains some of the most lyrically tender passages in all of Berg's music. And Joan Carroll has an actress' gift for tactful understatement that keeps the sexy from becoming the squalid. As Joan Carroll says: "Lively is the word for Lulu...
...latest schemes, which is limited to 150 daring girls between the tender age of 17 and the maturity of 21, is a visit to the docks of the U.S.S. Intrepid for what has been termed a "Tea Dance" by Navy officials. Midchtpenon from the Naval Academy will be on board. Those wishing to join them in this maneuver Thursday should enlist at the Social Director's office today by 1700 hours...
...Human Voice (Caedmon; $5.95), with Ingrid Bergman, is a brilliant one-woman tour de force written by Jean Cocteau and originally released in 1960. The woman is alone, talking to her lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...
Their staple crop, presumably grown on the river flats after the annual freshet, was lima beans, but they also ate reed shoots, berries and an unidentified tuber. They caught fish with hooks made by tying tender young thorns into a hook shape and letting them harden that way. They had no cotton or wool, but they wove cloth and fish nets of coarse fibers...