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Gerd is the antithesis of a pin-up girl: 5 ft. 3 in., 161 Ibs., with measurements of 45-39-43. But never mind. Fan letters have been pouring into Fuji's Düsseldorf office at the rate of 20 a day asking for reprints of the ad, which shows Gerd on an Ibiza beach over the caption, "Take a picture of your sunshine in the sunshine." A German air force squadron at Sobernheim has requested 30 blowups, and Fuji's ad agency has printed 10,000 posters, which it is selling for $3.11 apiece. A record...
Those catch-22 evasions are some of the ways in which about 50 nervous or hostile members of Congress are refusing to cooperate with the most massive and potentially significant survey Crusader Ralph Nader has undertaken. Working through the summer to pin down precisely how Congress, as well as each of its 535 members, actually rather than theoretically functions, about 800 eager, mostly unpaid Nader's Raiders are stalking their prey in Capitol corridors, Washington offices, state capitals and home districts. One major aim is to produce a profile of roughly 20 pages each on about 490 members...
...motivation and more than a fair share of trickery, but Hitchcock is such a superb storyteller that few viewers will even notice till well after the final fadeout. What they will notice is the perversity of the film. In one mind-boggling sequence, Bob tries to pry his diamond pin from the stiff fingers of the corpse that he has stashed inside a potato sack...
...actors are all proficient; Foster's flamboyant Bob, picking his teeth with that tie pin, is particularly telling. There are also Hitchcock's usual moments of high comedy, here involving Inspector Oxford and his wife, who is taking a course in gourmet cookery and assaults her husband's stubbornly English palate with a selection of highly sauced dishes. It is an old joke that would have worn pretty thin but for the performances of Alec McCowen and Vivien Merchant, the most elegant comic acting seen in movies in a long while. " ·Jay Cocks...
Until thorough studies are made, acupuncture in the U.S. is likely to remain a rarity. Even some acupuncture enthusiasts warn that would-be pin stickers should exercise caution. Dr. Samuel Rosen, a noted New York ear surgeon who visited China last year, points out that the Chinese spend years learning the method and doubts that Americans can master it in less time...