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...budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour. He has 27 of them-black tie for a filet steak Washington, for example, and a kangaroo-skin bush...
John laughed softly again, and then made the boy arch his stomach high, high into the air, then slowly lie back on the floor...
...Much arch commentary, however, edges toward Oscar Wilde: "He even felt glad that he had suffered a little. One must try everything once." Provocative (especially to an age notably short of elegant abuse), nearly always interesting as a tour de force, The Girls lacks narrative substance, a problem of form inevitable, perhaps, in books put together mainly from letters, excerpts from notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim...
...treatment of foreign diplomats in Peking has markedly improved in recent months. They are allowed to travel outside the capital again, and even such arch-revisionists as the Yugoslavs are treated with courtesy. Two years ago, the dependents of Soviet diplomats were evacuated as Red Guards spat on them at the Peking airport and made them crawl under portraits of Mao Tse-tung; now these Soviet citizens are returning. A recent complaint to India over an attack on the Chinese embassy in New Delhi was stern but matter-of-fact, and there was no counter-demonstration in Peking-in stark...
...importance of the above in this determination of the precise context in which political action is permissible is that Weber, the arch-rationalist and father of scientific sociology, could do no better than to describe the process in terms as flagrantly imprecise as "somewhere [one] reaches the point" of decision. This failure to be more exact is not due to any lack of mental capacity on Weber's part--it is inherently impossible to find scientific principles on which to base one's judgments and choices...