Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sweet Clarity. Blizzards of shrapnel tear words out of sentences. A thought is splintered with the crack of a sniper's rifle...
...fast as Hollywood could find stars to play them (most recently, Tender Is the Night); his life has been fictionalized (by Budd Schulberg in The Disenchanted); his last mistress (Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham) has issued her memoirs; his notebooks and diaries have been edited by Edmund Wilson (The Crack-Up); and he has become a popular target for Ph.D. theses and those solemn essays in amateur psychoanalysis that often pass for criticism...
...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the closet. The desert sighs in the bed;/ The crack in the teacup opens. A lane to the land of the dead...
Some system of priorities for rooms would be necessary under a uniform rent system, Trottenberg said. A system like Yale's--seniors getting first crack at desirable rooms--would cause "the biggest youth migration since the Children's Crusade," he asserted...
...Night. Marriage without love and life without meaning are examined with talent, intelligence and despair by Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura), whose text might be from W. H. Auden: "The glacier knocks in the closet,/ The desert sighs in the bed;/ The crack in the teacup opens/ A lane to the land of the dead...