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...said an Eighth Army officer on duty at Panmunjom. Spitting, name-calling and obscene gesturing, he added, are "almost a point of honor for them." When off duty, the 43 U.S. officers at Panmunjom mingle at an officers' club called The Monastery, where each man has a brown, velveteen monk's robe and hood that he dons for elaborate induction ceremonies. Each officer also owns a black baseball cap, which is hung on a hook above the bar. The most veteran member of the group hangs his hat on a hook around the corner, and when his time...
...China, that sells for only $1.50 at San Francisco's Obiko Boutique. A detachable black leather pouch, originally designed by Manhattan's Ruza for the U.S. ski team (both sexes), hangs from either a canvas belt or a shoulder strap. Other designs include squares of velvet, printed velveteen canteens, hand-painted leather boxes and oblongs of beads...
Even human disasters are transfigured into something inhumanly beautiful. The adulterous executive leaves his windowless bedroom to seek aid, and enters his duplex office to find it on fire--huge velveteen curtains, bargello chairs, plush carpeting. His clothing catches fire as well. We lose sight of the human perspective as the director shifts into slow motion and we watch only a vaguely human figure on fire stagger through a room, framed by flames as floor, ceiling and walls burn. (Early in the film there are a couple of graphic shots of charred skin, but--after these few nauseating moments...
This audience can be trouble for concert-hall managers. Says Cleveland Promoter Jules Belkin, "They are up on the seats boogieing and running around the hall." Dress ranges from scruffy jeans to $200 velveteen jackets. The girls may come in couples to ogle, say, a topless Mark Farner of Grand Funk. Then there are the brassy groupies with their stevedore vocabularies who haughtily flaunt their backstage passes. The boys come in gangs and do what gangs do -fling lighted matches, fight the bouncers, sometimes toss empty wine bottles. Vomiting from too much beer or wine is a status symbol...
...Show Band. "I don't hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie Brodkorb. He is wearing a purple vinyl Vikings jacket and a little feathered purple felt hat. "Thank God I like the color purple," says Lois, whose loyalty extends down to her purple fingernails, matching purple velveteen pants and purple satin vest...