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...Tut-Tutty. Less starry-eyed than Piet, the other couples also begin to ease themselves into each other's beds-some out of boredom, some for revenge, some because they find nothing forbidden, and others because in the past too much has been forbidden. Over the whole group hovers the satanic, death-worshiping Freddy Thorne. He is a dentist by trade, but in fact he is a faithless St. Augustine indulging his "hyena appetite for dirty truths" in his role as Updike's designated "priest" to the tribe. "He thinks we're a magic circle of heads...
...every last sock in the eye. Age doesn't make you callous, just confused about what's Right and Wrong. So when relief--a play or a novel or a movie with straight black and white characters--comes, you run to it. And since Mr. Crowther took such a tut-tut attitude toward the violence, I figured there'd be lots of it. That meant a simple simpatico bunch of heroes because, as any director knows, you can add brutality and blood baths only if the audience feels sufficiently gung-ho about the heroes...
Paris has Pharaonic fever-all because of 45 objects from the tomb of Egypt's boy king, Tutankhamen (circa 1358 B.C.), which recently began a four-month stay at the Petit Palais. The event is hardly news: King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. But ever since the exhibition opened, Parisians waiting to get in have jammed the Avenue Churchill with serpentine lines five bodies thick...
Such official visitors as 91-year-old Konrad Adenauer have had to wait until 10 p.m. for private tours. French newspapers and magazines are filled with articles on "The Short and Pathetic Life of a Persecuted Monarch" and "Was King Tut Really a Woman?" L'Express depicted De Gaulle as a Pharaoh, and even fashion has been afflicted. Two top hairdressers, Alexandre and Carita, have created Egyptian coiffures and appropriate makeup-blue or black lines outlining lips and nostrils, plus eyeliner extending halfway round to a lady's ears...
Mask & Marsh. Although Tut's burial effects have traveled before (34 objects toured the U.S. in 1961-62), their Parisian trip was arranged with unprecedented showmanship by that esthetic Barnum. Culture Minister André Malraux. After first viewing a roomful of statuary entitled "The Theban Cradle of the Child King," the visitor accompanies the boy on his twilight journey from death and burial to resurrection and fusion with Osiris, god of the dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made...