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...Hoffman circles the earth carrying six shirts, five pairs of eyeglasses and 290 lbs. of old letters, news clips, books. Also in his luggage: pad after pad of his "Handy-Dandy Little Giant Nervous Breakdown Avoider," a mail-answering form full of prefab messages such as "Congratulations," "Get well soon," "Let's both forget it," and "You paid me the highest compliment a woman ever paid a man, but I am not worthy of your love." That last item is frequently checked, for Hoffman is fond of women, including girls of all wages. His vision being what...
Searching for the royal tree, sarongclad Laotians, silver-bedecked Meo tribesmen, naked Kha with blowpipes and poison darts move like shadows through the jungle. Black, White and Red Thai pad over the hills and into the deep valleys. "No one is forced to search, but all do," says the Minister of Cults. "By so doing they gain merit in the eyes of Buddha...
...glow at the end of its cable car, 4,000 feet above the city on Mount Avila. Inside the red-plush walls of La Belle Epoque restaurant, the oil lawyers and the air-conditioner distributors hoist $2.40 martinis and down $20 dinners. Visiting businessmen snap on black ties and pad down the corridors of the jammed Hotel Tamanaco, bound for nightclubs where sleek performers dance the traditional, twirling, fast-stepping joropo to the sound of harps twanging like guitars...
Needle Stab. After the fashion of Pirandello, Author Gelber takes an ax to the footlights, tries to smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than...
Passionately fond of city life, Kingman now lives in the heart of Manhattan, constantly prowls its streets with sketch pad in hand. "I feel I am learning to draw," he says with his habitual smile of polite delight. "Maybe when I get to be an old man and can't get around so well, I'll be able to do more things from imagination...