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CACTUS FLOWER. France is fertile soil for sex farces, and Director Abe Burrows has deftly pruned this recent sprout to make it thrive in the Broadway landscape. Lauren Bacall and Barry Nelson reap a rich harvest of giggles and guffaws...
...close I get as long as I don't get too big. In the North, they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." Despite the disappearance of the old ethnic comedy, though, some sub rosa jokes still thrive, on the assumption that only a really minor minority lacks the strength to fight or picket. The current favorite is the Polish joke, which ranges from harmless slap to unpleasant slur: Q. Why are there so few Polish suicides? A. It's not easy to get killed jumping from...
Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade as inoffensively as a hummingbird buzzing the phlox...
Health Buff. For most of the time, Lindsay seemed to thrive on his exhausting schedule. Again and again he appeared on television-reasonably clear-eyed and full of confidence-to encourage and inform New Yorkers. One day he spent almost 18 marathon bargaining hours at the Americana in what proved to be a futile hope that a settlement was near. Between the hours devoured by the strike, he discussed with aides some of the issues that will face his administration: the city's $200 million deficit, his plans to streamline the government, appointments to key posts. He even found...
Even more than the automakers, whose 1966 sales are off to a roaring start, U.S. truck manufacturers thrive on good times. As the economy grows, demand for trucks to haul everything from flowers to forge castings grows even faster. In 1965, for the fourth consecutive year, the U.S.'s 14 truck manufacturers expect to shatter records by turning out 1,500,000 vehicles and running up a 10% sales increase. Last week International Harvester, the industry's third largest company, announced that its truck sales have surpassed $1 billion for the first time, thus making Harvester the first...