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...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. The idol of soap-opera devotees works up a lather when she discovers that she is being written out of radio existence. So far, so standard, but there's a twist to this one as Beryl Reid plays a lesbian with the manners of a bulldozer and a pickax...
...Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current top hit: Get off of My Cloud...
...Montreal recently, two fellow drinkers and I invented the Rose Between Two Thorns: vodka (one thorn). Dubonnet (the rose) and gin (the other thorn) on the rocks with a twist of lemon...
...other with bear-hug abrazos, and made a few speeches. The party of 55 traveled on by barge, truck, foot and air, making up the trip as they went. Aboard his DC-6, Belaúnde manned the public-address system, describing the dense, steaming jungle below and every twist and turn of the marginal road. "That's the Tambo River," Belaúnde noted, "where I came down the rapids in a raft." Over there was Tingo Maria, a new agrarian-reform project where 25,000 settlers will soon dwell. Off in the distance in the fertile Huallaga...
...like Poor Tom in King Lear. Deitch plays him as a controlled crafty-plotter--a fuzzy combination of Puck and an American confidence-man. His dress and manner is stylized motley rather than lunatic tatters. His elegant flourishing makes him swallow the many good jokes he has, and completely twist his character...