Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...copies: 10 for the author's parents and 10 for aunts and uncles in Orange County, California, or some other reactionary region. As it is, the book is prominently displayed in reputable bookstores and reviewed in reputable publications. That means others--including other reviewers--are forced to take account of drivel they could otherwise throw in the circular file with the rest of the crank mail...
CLASS REUNION, Rona Jaffe's account of the lives of four Radcliffe grads from the '50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl...
...accurately, which is more of an achievement than it may sound. But she only acts out bewitching allure; she does not embody it. During rehearsals, the cast screened Louise Brooks' Lulu in the 1928 silent film of Wedekind's Pandora's Box- which may partly account for Shade's tendency to play the role as a jazz-age vamp...
...life was a matter of putting on heirs, of inventing a past that never was and promising a future that could never be. Endless rascality ultimately becomes tedious and irksome; all the world loves a confidence man until it discovers its wallet is missing. Yet Wolff's account of this misspent life is absorbing throughout. It is not just the story of "a wreck of a desperado," as he calls the Duke at one point; it is an engrossing, often moving search for the troubled bond between sons and fathers that is known as love...
...bloated Government. One can only speculate that the advent of the supercooled bedroom may be linked to the carnal adventurism associated with the mid-century sexual revolution. Surely it is a fact-if restaurant complaints about raised thermostats are to be believed-that air conditioning induces at least expense-account diners to eat and drink more; if so, it must be credited with adding to the national fat problem...