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...were taking off last summer on a car trip to California, his father repeated his earlier warnings against picking up hitchhikers. "They can be dangerous, you know," he said. And last Sunday, after I had informed my mother that I had hitched the day before from Harvard to Bard College in New York, she warned against accepting rides from strangers. "They can be dangerous, you know." she said...
Taking danger in my stride. I left Cambridge for Bard late Saturday afternoon. A co-hitcher named Adam joined me on the entrance ramp to the Mass. Turnpike. He asked me the score of the just ended Harvard-Princeton football game, and I told him I didn't know. Adam was hip, though; he hastily added, "Not that I give a shit...
...Miller had a captive audience that any politician might envy. The Governor made the most of his opportunity, leading the oil executives through the Alaska Flag Song, introducing fellow Alaska politicians and screening a color film on the state. The audience was then treated by self-styled Bard of the Arctic Larry Beck to a recital of all 30 dreary stanzas of Black Gold. A sample couplet: "They made their way to Prudhoe Bay/To mine the black gold...
...Beatty in the unlikely role of Everyman. But both movies displayed a moral force and a growing understanding of the possibilities of film. With Bonnie and Clyde, Penn abruptly became an internationally recognized film maker. In his newest film, Alice's Restaurant, Penn gives visual substance to Mocking-Bard Arlo Guthrie's instant-hit record of last year. Penn currently is working on Little Big Man, a study of the contemporary American Indian, with Dustin Hoffman in the title role. ∙ STANLEY KUBRICK. A favorite of the French theorists, Kubrick ironically has the most difficulty fitting their procrustean...
Slightly pedantic word play, cultural booby traps, brisk leaps from the Bard of Avon to the Good Ship Lollipop, elegant divertissements for all occasions ?such things can be expected of Nabokov. But that is far from all. Russian by birth, a U.S. citizen who now lives in Switzerland, he has become, at 70, the greatest living American novelist, and the most original writer and stylist since Joyce. He is also an exile, a man who has triumphantly survived this century of the refugee, a man who has lost everything, yet transformed his losses through art and levity into...