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...hairdresser or the lisping, limp-wristed interior decorator. His lesbian counterpart is the "butch," the girl who is aggressively masculine to the point of trying to look like a man. Blatants also include "leather boys," who advertise their sadomasochism by wearing leather jackets and chains, and certain transvestites, or "Tvs." (Other transvestites are not homosexuals at all and, while they enjoy dressing in female clothing, may also have women as sex partners...
...rate, which had climbed above 7% in the early 1960s, last year sank to about 3.5%. Consumer prices have shot up 39% since 1958 v. only 18% for the U.S. For a while, the workers shared in the fruits of Gaullism, and many bought their first small cars and TVs. But the costs of De Gaulle's global policies mounted. The force de frappe alone, a dubious deterrent, required more than $2 billion a year. Not enough was left for the workers, whose wages lagged behind those in every other Common Market country except Italy. To add to the pinch...
...journey, the organization men-whom he may over-villainize-seemed to be winning. Even what is apparently spontaneous turns out to be organized-subliminally. Last summer's ghetto riots, for instance. Black Power was not the culprit. As Vice President Humphrey told Wakefield: "The looters took the TVs or the stoves or whatever had been best promoted. Why, the way people selected those things they looted was the greatest triumph of advertising the world has ever seen...
...leave the TV set. ABC was offering an updated version of the 1944 film mystery Laura; the adapter was no less than Truman Capote, and Princess Lee Bouvier Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's sister, was in the title role. NBC, meanwhile, had ponied up an unprecedented $112,500 for TVs first preview of a Broadway-bound drama, William Hanley's Flesh and Blood, starring Kim Stanley, E. G. Marshall and Edmond O'Brien. Yet neither work played up to its billing...
...hand-hewn beams, sell them to satisfy America's increasingly nostalgic appetite for rustic building materials. The barn boards are being used in homes mostly as warm wall paneling for family rooms, dens and country kitchens, or for cabinets to contain the latest stereo-tape decks and color TVs, and even for picture frames. But the weathered wood is also finding its way into supermarkets, restaurants, executive suites and department stores...