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...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The sly humors of a talented cast delightfully enhance the sophisticated wit and verve of lesser-known Porter tunes...
Through an accident of onomatopoeia, the Rann of Kutch* looks just like it sounds. A reeking reach of black tidal mudflats bounded with sand dunes and etched by dead streams of salt and scum, it was until recently of interest only to hardy naturalists in search of the lesser flamingo and herds of wild asses. But the Rann separates India and Pakistan, and that fact alone was sufficient last week to make it another of the world's dangerous little flash points...
...where plump, pipe-smoking Prime Minister Harold Wilson relaxed with his family, now and then paddling a boat in and out of rocky coves. Wilson had good reason for contentment. During his six-month stewardship of Britain he had weathered a series of crises that would have shipwrecked a lesser man and brought down many a stronger government. To the surprise of many, Wilson was still Prime Minister, though he had only four votes to spare - the narrowest margin in this century...
...reckless abandon. First, 2,000 chanting collegians traded stones for tear gas with mesh-masked police. Three days later, a mob of 6,000 swarmed through the capital's main streets. On and on it went, until the daily demonstrations mushroomed to 10,000 youths in Seoul, with lesser eruptions in other cities as well...
Every woman knows how the scarf-makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island-that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck...