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After you fill out the card, you sit in the waiting room, flipping through last month's New Yorker and listening for your name. The array of blank office doors off the big room begins to look like the cylinder of a gun for Russian roulette. Behind one of them is the doctor they will send you in to see-take him or leave...
Double Billing. Dodd and his lawyer, New Yorker John F. Sonnett, aimed their bitterest attacks at the Senator's onetime bookkeeper, Michael V. O'Hare, one of the four who had scoured the files. O'Hare swore that on five occasions, acting under the Senator's instructions, he had "double billed" the cost of airline tickets, getting reimbursement both from the Senate and from the organization that had invited Dodd to appear. He also told of allowing Dodd to "borrow" $6,000 from one of the Senator's testimonial ac counts to clear up back...
...Soldat last week, Seattle Opera Director Glynn Ross got no less a guest star than Stravinsky, who at 84 flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...
These words are spoken by three representatives of Viet Nam's peasant millions who have lived with war in their homeland for more than 20 years. Their stories were collected in 1965 and 1966 in a series of interviews by Susan Sheehan, a New Yorker writer and the wife of Neil Sheehan, who was a New York Times correspondent in Saigon. In addition to this Vietnamese trio, seven other people are presented in the book: a landlord, a Montagnard, an orphan, a Buddhist monk, a Viet Cong, a South Vietnamese soldier, a politician...
...Rice, a hard-living New Yorker who died in 1964 at the age of 29 while shooting a film in Mexico, made the most affecting movie that the new cinema has turned out to date: The Flower Thief. Certainly a vagrant, possibly an imbecile, the film's hero wanders the streets of San Francisco by day, a grown man pulling a little wagon that carries his Teddy bear. At night he goes back to the abandoned factory where a gang of derelicts chases him through the cellars with a terrible silent intensity. As interpreted with a marvelous simplicity...