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What would you do, goes one of the favorite guessing games in Viet Nam, if you were running the Viet Cong? Launch a wholesale terror campaign? Focus on winning the peasants? Toss in the towel and try Laos? Some answers came last week from an unexpected but authoritative source: the Communists themselves...
...Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
Three nights later, Ioannis bludgeoned his sleeping father with a hatchet, then stood by with his mother and sister while Vlachos suffocated to death in his own gore. ("Get a towel," Helena had warned beforehand. "There will be a lot of blood.") The family went to the police and told the whole story. Only then did they learn, to their astonishment, that their deed is punishable in West Germany by life imprisonment. "But I had to avenge my father's crime," protested Ioannis. "Why is it murder?" Even his sister Paschalina, 12, agreed: "What my brother did was right...
...result is a range of materials-silver lamé, brocades and sequins-that never used to be in the swim. Such suits usually come with matching culottes or jackets that can be donned in a jiffy. From pool to poolside cocktails is a quick dab with a towel and a snap of a waistband...
Flamencos & Astronauts. Even deter gents, capital offenders of eyes and eardrums, have begun to inject a light touch. Lever Brothers' Breeze includes a towel as a premium in its package, and spends much of its precious 60 seconds showing a man flamencoing in the bathroom, snapping the towel about his shoulders and abruptly turning into Jose Greco when the spirit moves him. Presumably his wife is Breezing the dishes, but she never appears...