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...play not only with the lopsided Englishness of his choices but with his embrace of verbally experimental books (Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, John Earth's Giles Goat-Boy) and of sci-fi or futuristic visions (Kingsley Amis' The Anti-Death League, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence). His list is as striking for what it leaves out as for what it includes. Every reader will have his favorite omissions-after all, that is half the fun of literary parlor games like this-but just to name five: John Cheever's Bullet Park, Nigel Dennis...
...fact, the first thing a viewer of the new film has to do is take a machete to his comfortable expectations about the Ape Man. Banish beefy Johnny Weissmuller, his predecessors and his heirs from your mind; rethink Jane; forget Boy; above all, abandon hope that Cheeta the chimp will skitter on to provide not only the movie's best acting but its only conscious comic relief as well. All of that was admittedly fun, as if the cast of a suburban sitcom had been dropped down in the African hinterlands, told to undress and act natural. But Burroughs...
...symbol, Tarzan (played lithely but never blithely by Christopher Lambert) requires little decoding. Born the seventh Earl of Greystoke to parents shipwrecked on the African coast, orphaned in infancy and raised by an extended family of apes, he is rescued and restored to his patrimony by a passing explorer (Ian Holm, who symbolizes humanity at its best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts...
...picture that may be destined to become the most famous late Picasso (his supposed last self-portrait, green and mauve, stubble on the withered, tight ape flesh) is merely banal in its theatricality. But when, as in The Artist and His Model, 1964, the grinding contradictions of his formal system lock at last, when the haste and incompletion of the surface are overcome by the tensions of their massive underpinning, late Picasso has great visceral power-if not, necessarily, the magical efficacy he sought. Even in travesty, he knew the tragic; and though these late paintings are not the best...
...Tootsie: "I can be taller! I can be shorter!" Come now, get hold of yourself; be what you are. The reader has to appreciate more pages, more opinions, but he is not likely to be fooled by a newspaper whose looks have been tinkered with so as to ape a television screen. Besides, the color reception in most papers is uneven. Ever count the number of helmets that quarterback appears to be wearing, the number of eyes on that beauty queen? A case in point seems due about here...