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Even more than Pynchon's previous novels, Gravity's Rainbow is about man the symbol-making animal desperately trying to build a protective system of meaning over his head while at the same time blind technology increases the odds that something will bash his head in. Pynchon begins, appropriately enough, in wartime London, with German V rockets (V1 and V2) raining random destruction on the city...
Stampeded in recent years by voracious freeloaders, the New York Film Critics decided to make their awards ceremony strictly a private affair. The bash at Sardi's was closed to reporters and all but a few pressagents and publicists. The critics did relent enough to let in the winners and their stand-ins, like John Gielgud, who collected the Best Actor's prize for Laurence Olivier (Sleuth). Liv Ullmann not only grabbed the prize as Best Actress (Cries and Whispers) but picked up three awards for her director Ingmar Bergman (Best Director, Screenplay and Picture awards for Cries...
...embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire by leave it alone and chauvinist by superpatriot. In the art of love, soiree would give way to the bash, rendezvous to date and femme fatale to sexpot. As for savoir-faire-cool, man. But then, plus ca change...
Protests. There are always a few people who never miss inaugurals and coronations. Among the more solvent of them this time around were the Henry Fords and W. Clement Stone. The Fords threw a private bash at the F Street Club, where Martha Mitchell and Husband John, lately of New York, got a chance to see their old Washington friends. Outside the club, in a scene reminiscent of a college football movie, George Washington University students cheered the guests on in the friendliest of ways. They were duly rewarded with a five-minute impromptu performance by Bob Hope...
...Harvard offense is very complicated according to Cozza who added. "Coach Restic puts everybody but the student body into motion. Yale's defensive strategy today will not be to key on any one player but rather to set up according to the offensive formation. "You have to be bash Cozza commented. It's hard to get a rush on them...