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Hollow Laughter. In The Night of Time, Author Fü;p-Miller, an encyclopedic, Hungarian-born historian who teaches sociology at Manhattan's Hunter College, produced a soberly symbolic essay on the fatuity of war. Wider in scope, The Silver Bacchanal reveals man as an Absurd Animal, torn between hope and despair, ideal love and an insatiable lust. Fü;p-Miller's instrument of dissection is irony, e.g., the army's bureaucratic campaign against disease-carrying houseflies, in which the city is divided into sectors manned by bumbling brigades of swatters. But the laughter...
...seen naked in this film, but there is a brief restaging of the memorable scene from And God Created Woman, in which Brigitte's nakedness, although coyly hidden from the audience, is reflected in the bulging eyes of her lover. In a praiseworthy attempt to reach a wider audience-some unrest has been reported among wives and girl friends dragged to previous B.B. films-the producers have included several shots of handsome naked...
...date, 303 U.S. children have had the test vaccine; virtually all have responded by developing solid antibody protection against natural measles. Most have had a slight fever in the process, but none have become seriously ill. If wider-scale testing confirms these results, the vaccine may be licensed and generally available in about two years...
While Lyndon Johnson was huddling with delegates at the Biltmore, Jack Kennedy came out of Lawrence's room with a wider-than-usual grin on his face. Whispered a Kennedy man with the same kind of grin: "We have it. That's the ball game...
...bikini in the U.S. hung by one string. Despite a major sales campaign, Manhattan stores reported that customers were buying bikinis only for wear in semi-seclusion-penthouse terraces, backyards-but that men were trying to persuade their wives or girl friends to try bikinis in a wider variety of landscapes. Nonetheless, models and Europeans continued to be the stores' best sort of bikini customers. The forbidding breath of Salem could still be felt on most American beaches...