7 MAIL
The decline and fall of Bob Block, a reader who dared too much, etc.
15 OPENERS
OUI's Believe It Or Not: the first McDonald's Hamburger joint in Paris; Jean-Luc
Godard's anti-Jane Fonda film; the tightest pants in the Western World; orange
peels as sexual indices; Tsingtao Beer, the Pabst Blue Ribbon of Red China;
the greatest Swiss circus anyone ever saw; Jackie Robinson and Ezra Pound and
the vortex of synchronicity. OK? OK.
34 BLUES FOR RED CHINA
Bad news for Mao: The cultural revolution is alive and hiding out in a rough
part of Hong Kong.
38 PRISCILLA
She's a bad motorcycle, among other things.
44 THE WISDOM OF Y. T. BELINSKY by James D. Houston
The highway is really strange; it's enough to make you wanna go home.
47 THE SMACK BRIGADE by Rodger Hurley
Methadone is fixing Vietnam-war junkies for good.
50 HOT HEELS
Francis Giacobetti, France's most wonderful photographer, engages in a little
foot fantasy. Pay attention and dream.
55 THE NEW SHOES ROAD TEST by John Burks
San Fancisco's most wonderful stand-up writer tries on some fantasy footwear
and discerns the Fall of History.
56 QUESTIONING MS. COLLINS
Our gatefold honey fills out a questionnaire, and, if you're quick, you get
some valuable insights. Modern girls are not just bodies. They perceive. They
evaluate. They classify. Sun is not steel. Wood can drip.
66 CONVERSATION WITH Alfred Hitchcock by Arthur Knight
The role of fear in the modern cinema is changing. It was not for nothing that
Hitchcock made Psycho in black and white, not color.
70 MY Linda Lovelace PROBLEM (AND YOURS) by Richard Hill
Women's Wear Daily may have gotten to Linda Lovelace first, but our got to her
best.
73 DOUBLE TAKE
AI Gescheidt's Teutonic penchant for tinkering yields more than Volkswagens.
76 MOMENTS OF TRUTH
Further evidence that the Spanish are a brave and lucid race, and that they
can tell an ugly broad from across a crowded Plaza de Toros.
79 OLDER WOMEN, YOUNGER MEN
No, this kind of sex isn't new, but it's fine.
80 THE BEST HI-FI SYSTEM IN THE WORLD (MAYBE) by Ed Ward
A no-nonsense guide for the person of not-extravagant (but by no means limited)
means.
84 GOA: STRANGER IN AN ODD LAND by R. Meltzer
America's most peculiar writer went to India and came back with a strange, feverish
tale that some of the editors refused to believe.
87 THE PRISONER OF SOUND by Charles Haas
Ask not what your local radio station can do for you....
88 SWEDEN'S FAVORITE HAMBURGER
Mit Karin geht es schnell; Mit Karin geht es muhelos; Mit Karin macht es Freude.
Sei Schlank.
