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...major U.S. companies, largely due to the efforts of a former Golden Gloves lightweight from Omaha named Glynn Ross. He has been called everything from a publicity hound to the hip huckster of grand opera. He loves promoting. "Get ahead with Salome," read the shameless pun on one poster...
...Laurence Olivier (Prentice-Hall; $10.95) is by far the most literate of the new biographies, though it has a tendency to tiptoe all about its subject. Some negative observations are offered about Lord Olivier's vulgarities and his tendency to rant. But the book is mainly an enlarged poster of theatrical quotes: "Range and virtuosity"-James Agee; "Unforgettable"-Kenneth Tynan; "The most lovable person in the theater''-Dame Sibyl Thorndyke; "Simplicity and humility"-Kirk Douglas...
...morning before May Day. Within minutes, traffic snarled to a halt as drivers hopped out of trucks and autos to join in street dances. Firecrackers exploded everywhere, and bells rang joyously. Jubilant factory workers and office employees, teachers and pupils poured into the center of town. From a huge poster high on the façade of the Central Information Hall, overlooking the confluence of the city's main thoroughfares, Ho Chi Minn, clad in the green fatigues of the Viet Nam People's Army, smiled benignly on the joyful crowds. The big letters on the poster read...
...HARMONY WITH Richard Wilbur's very liberal verse translation of Moliere. Steven Corning's production of Tartuffe is a lively and imaginative rendition of a great comedy. You couldn't have missed the poster, so you ought to see the play...
...insatiable cocks and cunts of Los Angeles suburbanites become an overextended, tiresome metaphor for the political machinations of the pricks in Washington. It seems that every time two beautiful people are in close enough proximity to become aroused, Nixon's face appears on the screen, either on a wall poster, beaming with that entreating, deceitful smile, or on a television, unctuously articulating the campaign pledges to "bring the nation together...