Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nostalgia is what we like today: warm, a bit muzzy, with lots of generalizing dips back into a past full of evocative stage props and period business. Memory is another matter. Remembering truthfully is as difficult as inventing well -- indeed, more so; hence the paucity of good memoirs. "You must never undertake the search for time lost," warns the last sentence of Gregor von Rezzori's The Snows of Yesteryear, "in the spirit of nostalgic tourism." The rest of the book shows how carefully he has obeyed this precept...
...movie tycoon more crass, smug and fascinatingly awful than any envisioned by Nathanael West. As the tycoon (Rene Auberjonois) lays down the law (no social criticism, no politics, no hint of kinky sex), the moneystruck young writer (Gregg Edelman) peevishly retypes his scenes -- and, in an inspired bit of playfulness, that action causes his characters to move and speak jerkily backward, as if a film were being rewound, until they are back in position to perform the new bowdlerized version...
...bit of advice: Stay away from elections...
...prices come down and people feel poorer, consumer spending could slow a bit. Other factors may keep the economy humming, but one thing that's bound to slow is the turnover of houses. People are stubborn when it comes to selling their homes at less than they were counting on, let alone at a loss; and, especially after allowing for selling expenses, the equity available from the sale of one's first house may now be less, not more, than what's needed to trade...
...Wherever the artists or arrivistes made the scene in 1960s London, Cooper was there, camera in hand. For those craving a (costly) glimpse of the time when the Beatles and the Stones ruled the realm -- "For a few years then we were just flying," recalls one of the bit players -- comes this collection of 600 works by their court photographer...