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...students can pelt one another with mudpies and bags of water regardless of ideology and for no reason whatever. Not the least significant expression of the nation's mixed-up mood was a bumper sticker with the slogan: SEND BATMAN TO VIET NAM. There was also a new button that proclaimed...
...Pierre's line all about? Says Cardin: "My fashion is elegant and sexy for men." He himself is his own best advertisement for sartorial splendor. In Manhattan last week to plan a Cardin boutique that opens next September at Bonwit Teller, he was sporting a three-button, single-breasted suit with extra-long coat and high-rising pleated side vents. Cardin also likes slacks with colored stripes up the side, flowered dinner jackets, four-inch-high collars and square hats. It is not, he insists, an Edwardian look: "I never look backward. I design for tomorrow...
...uses to hold papers in his documents case, Cotton ripped off one of the clasp's wire handles, stripped an equipment strap for insulation ("My hands were sweating") and inserted the wire with the pliers. "Okay, okay!" he yelled to White, who then pushed the forward-gear button. A pursuit plane radioed that the gear was descending as intended and seemed to be locking into place...
...bomb is ready to fall, the button to be pushed...
...homosexual affair with a Member of Parliament, who himself slept with the writer's wife. Both politician and wife are now dead, he of syphilis and she of the results of crawling into the bottom of an elevator shaft and waiting for someone to press the down button. The antihero, left alone with his nausea, distracts himself by recreating the career of a Mohawk Indian saint named Catherine Tekakwitha. "Catherine Tekakwitha," he maunders, "who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Can I love you in my own way? I am better...