Word: dross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE BIRDS is a million times worse. One cannot help but feel that the editors at Harcourt Brace, having culled the best stories for the successful Delta of Venus, have now published the dross. Where Delta of Venus is sometimes cloying, Little Birds is actually offensive. While I was somewhat uneasy at the characterizations of huge, lusty men and women who were "genuine whores" in Delta, Nin really comes out of the closet in Little Birds. If there are sadists, they are men. If there are masochists, they are women. The twin gods of Freud and D.H. Lawrence...
...means his ravaged soul as well, but Bedford delivers the lines like an ad campaigner against environmental pollution. Henry's Elena is a femme fatale of provocative dimensions, but she moves with a languor that confuses sensuality with sedation. If purity of spirit can burn away the dross of circumstance, then Maraden's Sonya is a quenchless flame, albeit a small...
Ullmann achieves the alchemy of a fine actress with this dross. Under her magnetic touch, her commanding presence, her lustrous eyes, the base metal of O'Neill's drudgery seems, at times, to glisten. She is aided by the direction of José Quintero, who has a hand-in-glove affinity with all the works of O'Neill. Unfortunately, in this particular instance he is reduced to the condition of a Boy Scout trying to strike fire by rubbing one stick. T.E. Kalem
...woman wishes to be killed went the old wisdom before Women's Liberation wiped that out, something in a woman wishes to be killed, and it is the weakest part of herself, have it ploughed under, ground under, kneaded, tortured, squashed, sliced, banished, and finally immolated. Burn out my dross is the unspoken cry of his girls--in every whore is an angel burning her old rags...
...weekly Monday Morning recently ran a fashion spread on the "military" look, showing models with rifles under the headline THE APPROPRIATE LOOK. Last week the magazine outdid itself with two new fashion tips: the "refuse romper," platform shoes "designed to keep pedestrians from submerging in garbage heaps"; and the "dross dress," festooned with refuse so that the wearer can "evade snipers by melting into any garbage heap or, in the unlikely event that no such heap is immediately available, by lying down anywhere and becoming a garbage heap...