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...been fitted into a schedule already jampacked with appointments for facials and pedicures, yoga lessons and gym classes. In The Beautiful People's Beauty Book (McCall; $5.95), Luciana Pignatelli reveals the secrets and sham, pressures and rewards of a lifetime dedicated to pleasing that most demanding, unrelenting, infinitely precious of friends-the mirror...
...lavish-living multimillionaire who may have served as the model for the central character in Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger: of an apparent heart attack: in Boca Grande, Fla. Engelhard ballooned an inheritance of $20 million into an estimated $250 million by his grasp of the potential of precious metals in technology. Equally successful in racing, he spent close to $10 million for top-quality thoroughbreds, had 213 victories in the U.S. in nine years. After his acquaintance Fleming published Goldfinger, Engelhard emphasized the obvious by once showing up for a party in an orange sweatshirt and pretending...
...Kazoo Theater-is a sentimentalist's stew of short experimental films (some of which are the work of students at the Welles Film School); occasionally funny comedy bits by the bothers Polinsky; recitations (one gets something like "People are the true flowers, and it has been a most precious pressure to have temporarily strolled in your garden"; a song; and a play. The play is a two-man, one-act affair, written by Stephen and Joel's uncle, about two dogs, with amplified social overtones along the lines of Disney's Lady and the Tramp...
...minutes on Saturday morning, it might have seemed that General Jack D. Ripper, the manic guardian of "precious bodily fluids" from Dr. Strangelove, was at the controls. From the Army's civil defense warning center in Colorado's Cheyenne Mountain, a signal was flashed directly onto the wires of the Associated Press and United Press International. It was a notification that the nation was in a state of emergency, confirmed by an appropriately sinister code "authenticator"-HATEFULNESS, HATEFULNESS. Scores of radio and television stations across the nation broadcast the emergency...
Last week when I visited the trial, the defense was left with only one precious peremptory challenge, and the pressure was immense to "trap" the hostile juror into making a statement which would give the court cause to excuse him. The very last member of one panel of 50 jurors was a college-educated supervisor at Schick-Eversharp Razor, a company which is currently engaged in making a film about the Panthers. This man, a member of the National Rifle Association, had talked to colleagues who had been excused for cause, for being, among other things, too involved with...