Word: erosion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some day, somebody like Ralph Ginzburg will publish the best promotions of Ralph Ginzburg. It will include blurbs for Eros, the hard-cover quarterly "devoted to the joys of love"; Fact, the magazine that would "not hesitate to ask 'Where are the emperor's clothes?' "; and Avant...
Eros and Violence. During the first of these interruptions, West wrote a capitalist Candide called A Cool Million (1934). Political in intent, the book puts a cute left spin on the old Horatio Alger story and burlesques the American Dream as a horribly funny fascist nightmare. West was never a...
Like West's other books, The Day of the Locust (1939) is essentially a loose society of sketches that enlarge a theme. The World's Illusion is objectified as Hollywood, and Hollywood is personified in Faye Greener, a bitch every man in the book is after. There are...
In this vacuum of affections, the film is played out in what amounts to musical form. Other directors may prate of their McLuhanesque approaches to movies. Bergman has quietly composed nonlinear work for more than two decades. The Passion is like a string quartet in which four master players reciprocally...
Freelance Artist Brooks Wilson (George Segal) lives your average 9 to 5 life: wife (Eva Marie Saint) in Connecticut; mistress (Janis Young) in Manhattan. Wilson has trouble peddling his ad illustrations-possibly because they look as if they were traced from a 1945 copy of the Saturday Evening Post. His...