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...from Burgess's fantasy is a plush animated cartoon, with extraordinary color consistency (credit John Alcott's lights), one acceptable action setpiece (a gang battle, not the "Singin' in the Rain" sequence), and a cast of characters in no way as interesting and varied as that of Fritz the Cat. The Ludovico Treatment, not as indispensable to the book's development as Burgess's language and characters, not only dominates the film's outlook, but the way in which it works...
...immensely civilized, reasonably cosmopolitan and statesmanlike. Henry Kissinger, an unabashed admirer, says that "he is not a petty man. He has large views." To France's peerless man of all letters, Andre Malraux, the Chinese Premier is "neither truculent nor jovial: faultlessly urbane and as reticent as a cat...
...under the offices of Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped 300 yds. of hand-blocked Indian fabric to form a giant tent. Beneath the tent are something like 100 cushions for visitors and Justin's small menagerie: a huge Afghan hound named Zaradin, two Persian cats called Buttercup and Jemima and a "plain" cat called Pansy. Twiggy stays for dinner perhaps four nights a week, and Franco, Justin's Italian chef, whips up a meatless pasta for her mostly vegetarian diet. She eats fish, but no meat. Most of their friends are in show business...
...realize this. Last year when he appeared at Black Expo '71, a trade and cultural fair in the International Amphitheater in Chicago, the audience was screaming for Geraldine even before Flip came on. "There was such a massive outpouring of love and appreciation that it overwhelmed the cat and broke him down," remembers the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who helped organize the affair...
...skills. The first show featured a filmed demonstration of how to build a raft from tree limbs, leaves and an old tarpaulin. A 41-minute karate exhibition aimed at defeating bicycle thieves was on the second. The third will include a thoroughly befuddling lesson in the game of "cat's cradle," with a perplexed young instructress tangling her string and admitting, "I got it wrong...