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...70th birthday in November, he will step down as 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. A determined ecumenist, Ramsey became in 1966 the first Cantuar to officially meet a Pope in 600 years. In avuncular fashion, he even made the swinging scene, telling his fellow clergy to stop being scandalized by topless fashions. He himself shocked his brethren in the middle of an argument about church vestments by disclosing, "In some churches I wear no more than a black scarf." When last year one of his plans, to merge the 46 million-member Anglican community with 20 million Methodists, was defeated again...
Free Beer. One creative exploit led to another in a can-you-topless-this spirit of competition. At the University of South Carolina, a streaker entered the campus library and asked to check out The Naked Ape. Responding to a Knoxville tavern owner's offer of a free supply of beer to the first coed who would pick it up in the nude, a shapely lass wearing only her makeup darted into the bar and with an armload of beer rushed out again to a waiting car. Two students staged a relay across a bridge in Portland...
...giving the kind of magnetic, idiosyncratic performance that can carry a show. He is aided by scripts and direction that reveal a sharp feeling for the city's tough lingo, roach-infested tenements and lurid neon street scenes. Last week Kojak solved the murder of a topless go-go dancer. The key clue that allowed him to trace the dead girl: the scars from silicone treatments on her breasts...
Chrissy meets them all. She, of course, is a character symbolically known as "poor little me"-alone, afraid and searching for identity ("I got no self). In the end, she opts for the nihilistic anonymity of being a topless go-go dancer in a big city...
Later, he's in Tony Volpe's bar, as usual, staring at the black topless dancer, utterly at home. And again he muses to himself: "She sure is a fine-looking woman. But she's black. I suppose there's no difference, though," etc. More cliches, and again an inevitable losing battle with the tyranny of his small world. His racism is a natural extension of the strict law of street and family...