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Well, no, he isn't. But carnography's adrenal rush, quickened pulse rate, and readying of muscles for action are nearly as effective as pornography's sexual flush in blocking out all other emotional and intellectual reactions. This monotonous, mechanical simplification is why porno and carno are properly held in contempt...
...carno question invites endless literary lawyering. Is it not possible, for instance, to write excitingly about violence without being a carnographer? Yes, of course; James Jones' fine combat novel The Thin Red Line is not carno, nor is James Dickey's Deliverance, nor Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer stories. Mickey Spillane's 1, the Jury is carno. No, it is not possible to draw a line, and yes, David Morrell's First Blood is unmistakably carno, well over the line that can't be drawn...
...line decision in favor of Vines when he was playing von Cramm the next day annoyed the gallery, caused shouts of "Lo-carno!" It made no difference in the final result?3-6, 6-3, 9-7, 6-3, for Vines. Dr. Daniel Prenn, who looks a little like Walter Hagen and plays tennis the way Hagen plays golf, with imperturbable determination, gave Shields his second beating in the last match of the series?...
Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy use their own names for the characters whom they impersonate in their pictures. Funny man Laurel was understudy to Charlie Chaplin when they both belonged to Fred Carno's London comedy company. When Mack Sennett saw Charlie Chaplin and Chaplin left the company to go into cinema, Laurel considered him "a fool for leaving." In 1917, playing a vaudeville engagement in Los Angeles, Stanley Laurel met Chaplin again, was persuaded to try a movie contract himself...
...defi to the world, but an expose of what Premier Mussolini believes to be the wreck of Lo-carno-this was suppressed, not by the Fascist censor but by the gentlemen of the U. S. press...