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...knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you? Any author could be speaking--what's more, this writer is deliberately shirking a human, corporeal identity--but the reader absorbs the warning through its zig-zagged rhythm, by its attachment to a style. And he will only remember the idea through Ellison thinking...
...Catherine Deneuve, 31, who endures from flick to flick, her glory undiminished by bad scripts and usually poor direction. Recently she arrived in the U.S. to start filming Robert Aldrich's Hustle. But before she left Paris, she allowed herself to be used to promote her latest movie, Zig-Zig, by posing in Esmeralda's, an erotic saloon in Pigalle, one of the few locales where a girl can get a laugh these days...
Quite a few photographs span the walls, while one set, by Bob Beusman, zig-zags across a table; Beusman calls it "Thirty-three Kodak Cuties Say Buy Me!", but there are only twenty-four. Bob Ely's pictures, in tempered grays, are slices from a Midwestern wasteland. He has fixed an eerie view of a technological desert: an empty drive-in-movie parking lot with a massive, mottled white screen leaning over it sprouts speakers on poles at gawky angles in the dust, and a jet plane hovers, hawk-like, in one corner...
Later in the week the short upward zig in Nixon's survival prospects flattened out somewhat when Charles W. Colson, the President's former counsel and chief White House political operative, was sentenced to prison for obstruction of justice-and said in court that he had committed the crime on direct orders from Nixon. A recent convert to evangelical Christianity, Colson seemed bent on telling the truth to the House Judiciary Committee and its impeachment investigators. Perhaps only Nixon and Colson know how damaging that may prove to the President...
...birds or seascapes almost childlike in their simplicity. Again, in search of energy, Avery strives not for sophistication but for the power of a basic form--a way to demonstrate the vitality of his world. He expresses all the pride and grandeur of a fan-tailed pigeon with nine zig-zagged lines. A dancer caught in mid-turn prepares to leap from the page, and a startled bird stretches across a dawning sky of four stars and a third-quarter moon...