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...hero of James Agee's Death in the Family ends it in a car. Bonnie and Clyde are massacred in one. Post-war writer John Cheever has increasingly employed random automobile deaths-both in his last collection of short stories (The Brigadier and the Golf Window) and his most recent novel (Bullet Park). And what, for that matter, is Ralph Nader's real message...
...translate a short story into a quality film. A good short story captures a brief glimpse of the human condition, turns on a fleeting moment of confrontation or revelation; a movie derived from such a microcosm is usually afflicted with a bad case of inflation. Take The Swimmer, John Cheever's mythic pool odyssey. One of the finest short stories in a generation, it was magnified into one of the worst movies...
Suburbia has long had a special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous...
...White's light verse in 1925. Later such novelists as Peter De Vries and John Cheever revealed the darker poetry of the strange islands visited by the 8:02 and the 6:55. Now, about 15 years behind schedule, Loving creaks into the local station. Though it copies many of Cheever's mannerisms, it offers none of his insight or humanity. Yet, from its pretentious title to its artificial fadeout, Loving* poses as a train of revelations...
...volatility could make Librium jittery, has turned out to have, his father says, "one of the great marriages of all time." When he talks today, he sounds as outrageous as ever, but miraculously, studio heads no longer shake their heads in bewilderment; they nod them in bewilderment. As John Cheever puts it at the end of Bullet Park, it is all "as wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful as it had been...