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...waiting monsignor led the visitor to a turn-of-the-century elevator. They rode down several floors, walked through rooms lined with musty, leather-bound volumes, entered yet another gloomy room. Across a heavy wooden table, decorated only with an austere black crucifix, sat a man in a black, violet-trimmed cassock. The visitor presented himself. "I am Illich...
...violet-crowned Baltimore...
...gleaming black hair is no longer neatly combed back. The mustache has been trimmed. Gone is the dashing Captain Midnight look: tailored black flying suit, violet scarf, pearl-handled .38 revolver. At 37, the Vice President of South Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky, has taken to wearing bulky Mao-style suits -and the baggy new look is in keeping with both his sagging political fortunes and his efforts to fashion a new political image...
Ultimate Voyeur. So avid is his camera that anything goes at The Factory, his New York City studio. He wants to "show people honestly," says Ultra Violet, "whether they are homosexuals, drug users or drunks." He is accused of glorifying the ugliness he depicts, but Ingrid Superstar defends him. Says she: "He likes to sit behind his sun glasses and observe the world." If so, Warhol is the ultimate voyeur...
...word. She strode into The Factory, pulled out a .32-cal automatic and pumped a shot into Warhol's chest. As he fought for life in a hospital, pals insisted that he had not brought it on himself. "Violence is everywhere in the air today," said Ultra Violet. "He got hurt in the big game of reality...