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...presence. Just past the village of El Cano, eight miles from the capital, Morfett came to a high hedge and a wire fence stretching for about two miles. Then, at a break in the hedge, "there were the Russians." They numbered in the hundreds, Morfett said, and wore coarse denim trousers and cheap checked shirts. "They looked in their early 203, and were beefy men . . . strong. They were probably a construction unit...
...friend. Though Russia has its brawling young nihilists, the day of the stilyagi (zoot suiters) is gone; more often youths are dressed in conservative grey with pencil-thin trousers. There is even a blue-jean fad, to the anger of militant party stalwarts, who note acidly that the blue denim must have been smuggled in from abroad, since it is a product not even manufactured in the Soviet Union...
...message of All Fall Down, the universal need for love, is as obvious as it is worthy; the means of getting it across makes unfailingly good reading. Author Herlihy (Blue Denim, The Sleep of Baby Filbertson) plays with a kind of hurt tenderness over every desperate human confrontation. With originality, freshness and economy he can convey the seediness of a brothel, a strip joint, a hotel room-never once trying for the sensational or playing up the shoddy for its own sake. Having skillfully drawn the Williamses as offbeat types, he makes it effectively plain in the end that what...
Thrashing in the water, Buie was too shocked with the cold to shout to the stern watch, tried swimming after his ship, then gave up. Nobody knew he was gone. Remembering his survival training, he quickly kicked off his shoes, stripped off his blue denim dungarees and knotted the pants legs. By popping the pants sharply onto the water, waistband first, he trapped an air bubble in each leg-and there, with his improvised float, he bobbed in the black sea. Isbell's lights faded in the distance ("I guess that was about the alonest I ever felt...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Rapunzel stars Carol (Blue Denim) Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Alexander Scourby...