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...wonderful things about life in New York City. The eponymous hero (Donald Sutherland) is a small-town Pennsylvania cop come to the big town to trace the disappearance of his best friend, a home-loving executive with a kinky double life. Klute concentrates on his single strong lead, a high-class hooker named Bree (Jane Fonda), who may have spent a night with the missing man two years...
...particular phone number and ask, "Can I come for a coffee?" The reply was usually, "Yes. We make it good and for all tastes." Then he would go to one of seven luxury apartments, where his "coffee" would be waiting with plenty of sugar-in the form of a high-class call girl...
...cigarettes from India and Japan and France, newspapers and magazines from Paris, Parisian cosmetics, chic boots, bags and belts. A delicatessen offers the usual fare-along with bouillabaisse, ris de veau and lobster en croûte. The bookshop stocks current bestsellers, as well as a discreet selection of high-class pornography and perceptive sampling of the overseas and underground press...
...like the procedure, is anathema. But a surprising number of nonsectarian "voluntary" hospitals (private but nonprofit) are imposing restrictions that are generally tighter than the law requires. The effect is to shunt many cases to "private" (meaning for profit) hospitals, which are making a financial killing as high-class abortion mills, while the poor, who are most in need of cheap, safe operations, are getting the least benefit from...
...newspaper ad placed by Honeywell Inc. to attract computer technicians was a high-class bit of copy and featured drawings of those two great authors of Principia Mathematica, Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) and Bertrand Russell (1872-1967). The late Bertrand Russell? Hardly. At 96, he is very much alive at his home in Wales. And when he heard that Honeywell also makes anti-personnel bombs as well as computers, he was even more willing to carry out a lawsuit he had filed for unauthorized use of his name and picture. After dryly noting the "somewhat misleading legend" about...