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Tarsis has hit on a setting with its own built-in fascination, a Black Sea health and fun resort, where deserving proletarians are allowed an official, 25-day binge once every five years. Set in another country, the story might be called a comedy of manners. Actually it is a tragicomedy of Soviet morality...
...tale set in the 1880's. Tight-rope dancer Elvira Madigan (16-year-old Pia Degermark) and army officer Sixten Sparre (Tommy Berggen) fall in love, desert their families to live together in the summer of a Scandinavian countryside. They catch butterflies, roll in the flowers, move along from resort hotel to resort hotel. But they run out of money. And, trying to keep their identities secret, they are unable to find work. On the edge of starvation, Sparre kills Elvira, then himself...
...biggest single project yet, part of Houphouët's plan to make Abidjan and the surrounding countryside the latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers, a silk-stocking residential area for 120,000 people and a zoological garden designed not only for tourists but for Ivory Coasters, who often do not get to see the fauna of their...
Since last December, the sewing machines of Duhamel girls hum away in a handsome glass-and-pine chalet at 4,921-ft. altitude in the mountain village of St. Sorlin d'Arves, near Grenoble of winter Olympics fame. To this small ski resort come groups of 40 workers from Harnes for four weeks of work and ski; they sew from 7 to 10 and from 4 to 6, get out on the slopes in between...
...number of perversions available to writers is much more limited. Voyeurism makes for a good opener--usually a man spying on women at a swimming pool, private beach or health resort. "The Girl Killer" begins with a sexual sadist and necrophiliac watching women sunbathe on a tenement roof through the breast-shaped lens of binoculars...