Word: allen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annie Hall. Even though it's based on his real-life relationship with co-star Diane Keaton, Woody Allen's latest--and arguably best--film is far more than cinema a clef. Allen's sensitive, sometimes painfully realistic portrait of a failed love affair between a neurotic but lovable New York Jew and a flaky midwestern WASP marks a generally successful departure in thematic approach; "Annie Hall" hoes much farther in exploring human relationships than any of Allen's previous films. Still, the best moments in the film are the deliberate send-ups in which Allen unleashes his scathing...
Richard S. Allen received several wounds, the most serious to his arm, in a skirmish shortly after lunch when prisoners were out of their cells. He was taken to Norwood Hospital, where he was treated and released...
...greatest contemporary evils (it is significant, he notes, that the Soviet Union has produced great spies but ngreat spy novelists). Yet his name appeared on an ad favoring British sanctuary for American Army deserters. Clearly such an author has not only written about but lived a central paradox. Allen Dulles, onetime head of the CIA, acknowledged the paradox when he wrote: "The question is whether we can improve our security system, consistent with the maintenance of our free way of life and a free press...
...Diane was just born funny," Allen says. "She can take a perfectly straight paragraph and read it and you'll be rolling on the floor. She has unfailing good taste. Her mind is never clouded by popular opinion, the need to score points. I can show her something and say the two greatest writers in the world love it, and she can pick it up and say 'I don't know what's so great about this.' And she'll be right...
...hours on any subject, his hands brushing back his unkempt white mane. And his poetry revealed the same confiding voice that animated his conversation. The controlled metrics of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) show the influence of Lowell's mentors, Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. In Imitations (1961), freely licensed translations of European poets, and in The Old Glory, a trilogy of plays based on stories by Melville and Hawthorne, Lowell employed a more conventional rhetoric than in the poems about his private experience. But it was in Life Studies...