Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fame did not come for almost another 20 years-mainly for his hilarious, linked tragicomedies, The Horse's Mouth and Herself Surprised. It is only now, a decade after Gary's death, that his continuing reputation has resulted in the first full-scale biography...
Biographer Foster naturally dwells upon the anguish of the long Nigerian period as the turning point of Cary's life. He etches in the hostile social and literary milieu in which Cary's vocation stubbornly flourished-where a stronger talent in a weaker man might never have come to fruition. In the long run, isolation proved a blessing. For Cary had to sweat over his craft far from the corrupting literary ambience that often sustains but modishly distorts young talent. London was full of Weltschmerz and fashionable reliance on canned Freud and Frazer. Cary was unaffected. Literary myth...
...this movie as a skin flick. All the book's references to love making, the clitoris and gynecology have vanished; as with most exploitation pictures, Candy no sooner teases us by showing a couple sacking out than it jolts to a new scene. For all its snide innuendos and come-ons, Candy ultimately has about as much to do with sex as the Julie Nixon-David Eisenhower wedding...
...Harvard is to have a successful Ivy campaign in Coach Bob Harrison's first year, a strong indication should come from these two games...
Adding that he was "pessimistic" about the symposium's chances, Kaplan said, "If it doesn't come off, then a group of the officers of undergraduate organizations will get together and do it themselves...