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AGNew: PROFILE IN CONFLICT, by Jim Lucas (Award Books, $5.95) This book is excellent reference material on one of America's newest and most controversial household words. In the present climate of political polarization, one would say that the author, who died recently, was "for" the Vice-President but in a quiet and objective way. This is not a pro-Agnew polemic.
The book is a chronological narrative of Agnew's political career. from Towson, Md., labor lawyer through the governorship of Maryland, to Washington. Of particular interest during Agnew's pre-vice presidential career is the account of his talks as governor to black leaders during the Baltimore race riots of 1968 following the death of Martin Luther King. It was then that Agnew lost liberal and black support which Lucas implies was unjust. Particularly clarifying are the chapters on the Republican Convention in Miami, the campaign and election, and most of all, Agnew's confrontations with radicals and with the mass media.
The author was a reporter for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. He received the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Korean War as well as two Ernie Pyle Memorial Awards for coverage of the Korean and Vietnam wars.
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WHEN PARENTS DIVORCE, by Bernard Steinzer (Pocket Books, $1.25) A practical approach to divorce, the author, a psychologist and family counselor, contending that an unhappy marriage can be worse than a divorce. Love, he argues, should be an essential in all marriages.
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HAIR, by Gerome Ragni and James Rado; BOB DYLAN, by Daniel Kramer; ROCK FROM THE BEGINNING, by Nik Cohn; OUTLAW BLUES: A BOOK OF ROCK MUSIC, by Paul Williams (all Pocket Books, 95 cents each) Four for the student of mass culture, or the rock enthusiast, and the latter would include virtually all university students these days. "Hair," is, of course, the by-now pioneering rock musical, and this is the book and lyrics. The Dylan volume is largely photographs, though there is a short text. The other two books are histories, and they carry the reader from the days of Presley and Bill Haley to the present.
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THE TROUBLE AT HARRISON HIGH, by John Farris (Pocket Books, 75 cents) A story of the nightmare that is becoming reality in many American high schools. The plot revolves around a boy who explodes a homemade bomb at his school.
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Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 27, 1970
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By HARRY MacARTHUR
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Sweden, which used to be headquarters for nude movies and sex movies, may declare war on Denmark over "Without a Stitch." This is the funniest satire on Swedish sex films that you are likely to encounter in months, maybe even in years.
Don't be put off by the publicity and advertising being used to tout the new picture at Loew's Palace. It is not one of those "skin flicks" that belongs on Ninth St. It's a sharply comic entertainment that employs sex and nudity for a purpose rather than for exploitation.
Alongside it, "I Am Curious (Yellow)" looks more than ever like a stag movie made for male smokers. I sat there in the dull morning laughing my head off while the voyeurs, who never should have allowed themselves to be lured south of New York Ave, by the ads, stalked out in boredom and befuddlement.
"Without a Stitch," is a sort of "Candy" made with good taste and an alert sense of humor. It's not the cheapie its title suggests, but a well-made film. It has been handsomely photographed in color by Aage Wiltrup. It was written wittily by Anneliese Meineche and John Hilbard and it has been directed
with defness and style by Miss Meineche.
You do have to be prepared to go along with complete candor, maybe more than you ever have seen or heard on the screen. You also have to be prepared for a great deal of nudity and sex, both that which is considered normal and that which is considered aberrational.
The sex is clearly simulated, but the nudity is not. And all you prudes had better be prepared for the fact that no healthy, young, redblooded boy in the audience is going to be repelled by the sight of Anne Grete, who plays the girl who keeps getting undressed. She just might be the second most beautiful girl in the world, dressed or undressed.
--where the featured act is a pair of bosom-dropping broads wrestling in a pool of mud. She is rescued by a wealthy German and winds up being whipped to stimulate his desires and whipping him to satisfy them.
Miss Grete plays a college student named Lilian, who goes to a doctor because she has failed to achieve the ultimate enjoyment in a sexual encounter with her boy friend, who is as clumsy in these matters as she is. The doctor explains — this has pretensions of being a sex-education film, pretensions it doesn't need—that it is more blessed to give than receive
To put it bluntly, when he has fun, you will. The Golden Rule, the doctor explains, is involved in this area, too.
Whatever you do is all right, just so long as nobody else gets hurt.
"To desist from sexual pleasure," he adjures, "is not more moral than desisting from picking flowers, reading books, or skiing..." Unless you go along with this, you had better avoid deep shock by avoiding "Without a Stitch."
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With this sage advice the doctor dispatches Lilian on a hitch-hiking vacation with a brand-new diary in which to record her new experiences with life. She has some experiences, too.
Her first ride is with a movie cameraman. This leads her right into movie stardom, in a stag movie made in Sweden for export only, and if they wouldn't show it there, you know this is an experience.
She goes on to Copenhagen, where she meets an architectural student named Lise. Lise spends a happy night with her, then introduces her to a new gambol—one man and two girls. He doesn't appear to be quite the man for the job and this suspicion is bolstered by the fact that director Meineche quickly cuts to Germany.
Here Lilian is appalled by the sexual deprivation of Hamburg, including a night club
Lilian takes off, understandably, and this time comes up with an English art student on the way to Italy. He puzzles her by not making a pass at her for days. Then they get to Italy, meet an old friend of his and she learns about another of those three-way deals, this time two men and one girl.
However, this account sounds "Without a Stitch" is a funny movie, not an obese one, largely due to the two women principally involved. Miss Grete, who is a real beauty, plays it with a wonderful innocence, as if it were "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." Miss Meineche has directed it with sharp and subtle wit.
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