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...Edgar Lawrence) Doctorow sat down on a wooden crate in front of his typewriter and told his wife Helen, "This is the way we are going to survive." He had $135 to his name. Forty-eight hours later, he had $50 left and a lot of blank paper...
...sets sail with a babel of unattributed dialogue swimming in blinding expanses of white space. Pages go by bearing single words: "Polaris," "horizon." Taken singly, these pages seem too easy, too close to the work of lazy poets who write a word like "loneliness" in the middle of a blank piece of paper and call it an insight...
...space between Cooper and Askew was left blank by Avedon for Theodore Shackley, 47. Shackley was the CIA station chief in Saigon. He now heads the CIA's East Asia and Pacific Affairs Bureau in Washington. Others stood patiently for Avedon's camera, but last week few of them were pleased with the result. Said Bunker: "I didn't think the photograph was flattering." Said Berger: "The photograph and the story are absurd. It's not history, it's emotion. Of course I feel a sense of responsibility for Viet Nam, everybody does." Said Colantonio...
...Russell's tasteless hand-held camera is thrusting and jabbing, commanding us to feel the child's trauma. So of course we feel very little, which perhaps makes sense because Tommy is struck deaf, dumb and blind by the experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed and looking like the aftermath of a heavy night of smashing guitars in the days when The Who used to wear their coke spoons publicly around their necks, and rumors flew that thousands of dollars worth of the stuff was often consumed in one night...
...movie is blank, unimaginative -think of every joke you have heard about New York over the past decade and here it is-and Bancroft cannot make much of the bits and scraps she is given. She is misdirected by Melvin Frank (A Touch of Class) to underline cartoon New York mannerisms: a threatened rasp in the voice that can easily twitch into hysteria, a battery of body movements that look like preliminaries for infantry combat...