Word: booked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throwing the Book...
Upon reading your review of Miss Susann's book and facing the distressing fiscal facts contained therein, I rushed forth and bought a color television set of heroic dimensions, broke off all diplomatic relations with my book clubs, and now, with shriveled soul and bated breath, I wait for the dawn of McLuhan's Millennium of Non-Linear Information...
...vanish into the part of Rooster Cogburn in True Grit. In the Charles Portis novel, a 14-year-old girl, Mattie Ross, narrated her adventures in the 1880s while tracking down her father's murderer with the aid of Cogburn, an aging federal marshal. The book was parodic frontier realism, a Frederic Remington painting with the colors put in by numbers: courageous red, sky blue, lily white and Zane gray...
Left to his own prose, Dunne is apt to say "vicissitudes" when he means "troubles." But he is a good reporter who unobtrusively sets scene after scene, constructing his book out of quotes that show the moviemen to be innocent of cruelty or dirty dealing, but guilty (in an engagingly matter-of-fact way) of venality and grossness...
...eventually is spent. He ends up buying an old pony-as a personal companion. "Today I discovered an old pile of Lucky's manure," he writes. "It was turning back to grass. And I saw it was a miracle." Somehow this becomes a touching ending to a delightful book. An alternate epitaph might be the horseplayers' eternal lament, "I shoulda...