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...beaches of Venice, Calif., have become dimpled moonscapes of posteriors slowly ripening in the sun. There are other views. "If you got 'em, you should show 'em," crows Yolanda Davis, 20, a brown-breasted Tetonesque dancer who bathes in the buff at Venice. "There's nothing nicer than a totally tan body with no white stripes of civilization in between," philosophizes Peter Simon, 27, a freelance photographer on Martha's Vineyard. On a sunny Saturday the secluded dunes on Free Beach in Truro, Mass., reveal 500 bare beach bunnies of all ages. Defying the garment industry...
...catch him in a relaxed social setting you may run into a trail of babble which is not the least bit blemished by transitional ideas: "I got into this cab today, and the cab driver has a December 3rd Newsweek--that's all right but it would have been nicer if it were December 10...I read papers, magazines, deep books, anything I can get my hands on. (What deep books, Mr. Boudin?) Well, I never read a deep book. But I am writing a novel, though I still haven't written a word--it's all in my head...
...Shop is full of library users taking a study break, and God knows they aren't attracted exclusively by the food--which is pretty skimpy. Ice cream, pre-packaged cookies and brownies, doughnuts, and other standard House grill fare is about all that is offered. Hilles is a much nicer library than Lamont, and the Coffee Shop on the top floor is just one of the reasons. It's a nice place to go for a study break, but you'd have to be pretty desperate to actually go there for anything else...
...think wings are desirable in a jet age," he says judiciously. "The music ought to be electronic, by disciples of Boulez, but with bits of Purcell for the Garden of Eden." He sees Adam clearly as stuffy, blond, Nordic-a Law-and-Order man. Eve, "the nicer part of human nature, not altogether reasonable, but charming," should be played by a dark girl, "perhaps a West Indian with a beautiful voice." But he grants that actors and voices might be a problem. "Great personages of the British stage," he notes disapprovingly, "speak in accents that are somehow very sterilizing...
...success has not spoiled her ambition-she still lusts after glittery names like Clint Eastwood, Mike Nichols and George C. Scott, all, so far, impervious to her blandishments-it has mellowed her somewhat. "It's easy to be nice when you're successful," she explains. "People are nicer to you, too. Hell. If I had it to do all over again I'd still rather be adopted by Henry Ford...