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This is a movie about a boy who falls out of a tree. It touches, in addition, on such evergreen themes as coming of age, loss of innocence and passage into uncertain manhood. Such an undertaking represents a narrowing in scope for Larry Peerce, whose previous effort, The Sporting Club, dramatized the decline of the West. In symbolic terms, of course...
...Until last fall, Joe Eszterhas, 27, was a bright and sassy reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Then he was fired for having written a piece in Evergreen Review that criticized his paper, himself and all others concerned with the merchandising of Ronald Haeberle's exclusive photographs of the My Lai massacre. * Eszterhas, backed by the American Newspaper Guild, protested the dismissal, and the case went to Arbitrator Calvin L. McCoy for judgment. In ruling against Eszterhas, McCoy asked: "Can you bite the hand that feeds you and insist on staying for future banquets?" Eszterhas, now writing for Rolling...
...President's decision to go to Peking was sharp and angry. The event, said Foreign Minister Chou Shu-kai, was "deplorable." Taiwan's Ambassador to the U.S. blasted Nixon's move. Outwardly, Chiang Kai-shek kept his dignified cool by spending some time at the Evergreen Hotel on Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, his favorite summer resort. But both Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei...
...blocks in operatic history. In 1951, for example, he was so desperate to get out of a commissioned job from NBC television that he offered to give back his $5,000 fee. "Nothing doing," said NBC, and Menotti eventually came up with that bright and sturdy Christmas evergreen, Amahl and the Night Visitors. All told, Menotti has been cornered by circumstances enough times to produce a larger number of effective popular operas than any composer since Puccini and Strauss...
...third section shows some scenes in Mexico, Tangier, and Europe, the trips abroad before Kerouac and Ginsberg returned to the United States to be famous after the publication of Howl. On the Road Evergreen Review No. 2, and The New American Poetry. The last picture in this final section, a picture of a sullen Kerouac in Tangier, has a caption below it that is prophetic: "At that time I sincerely believed that the only decent activity in the world was to pray for everyone, in solitude... At that very moment, the manuscript of On the Road was being linotyped...