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...does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that demand contemplation. Why, while a housewife is napping and dreaming of sex, does the husband come home and fall into the cellar? Even at their worst, such things are pitched slightly comic and askew. Hannah's voice becomes distinctive as the stories proceed, a rolling mixture of roadhouse macho and ginmill sentimentality, marvelously suited for both shenanigans and self-parody Most young souther writers resent being compared to such past giants as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. In embracing the gothic mode...
Gregory had another passion: politics. By his own account, he and his wife gave a total of $108,522.08 to political campaigns between 1974 and 1977. Among recipients: Governors George Wallace of Alabama and Reubin Askew of Florida. Gregory claimed that he and Vonna Jo gave some $40,000 since 1974 to Jimmy Carter's campaign fund and to the Democratic Party, and he also credited himself with raising some $250,000 elsewhere for the Democrats. Because of this feat he was made a member of the executive committee of the Democratic National Committee's finance council...
Madame Rosa won an Oscar last week as the best foreign film of 1977, but the honor seems slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried...
Leading the opposition is Governor Askew, who defeated a gaming petition drive in 1976, but who leaves office next January. Arrayed with him will be lawmen, the clergy, the Miami Herald and many Florida conservatives...
...Askew argues that no matter how the gambling law is written, it will attract organized crime, drugs and prostitution "like blood attracts sharks." Agrees Dade County Sheriff E. Wilson Purdy: "Organized crime is south Florida's biggest growth industry. They're all over the place now. Casinos would be a major step toward a complete mob takeover." Adds former Miami Beach Mayor Jay Dermer. "The hotel people have it all backward. They must first fix up their places...