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...doncha come on up and check out my digs?" she wheedled...
...film in which Miller reads from his own work are too long. He is not a very good reader, and his literary style is so conversational that he is at his best when he retells a story he wrote in one of his books. His extempore dialogue interspersed with "doncha know" and "isn't that so." is witty and engaging. His gruff, gravelly voice, not unlike that of Huphrey Bogart, conveys a tone of ironic detachment which helps in sensing the tone of his books...
...short stories Trend most nearly approaches the undergraduate literary norm. Bowden Broadwater's "Several Blots on the Family Escutcheon" will be familiar to all Advocate readers, and the criticisms for unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits...
Surveying him suspiciously, the bartender withdrew the drink farther and farther from reach. "You study, doncha? That's enough...