Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love Machine, Susann (1 last week) 2. Portnoy's Complaint, Roth (2) 3. Ada, Nabokov (3) 4. The Godfather, Puzo (4) 5. Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut (6) 6. Except for Me and Thee, West (7) 7. The Andromeda Strain, Crichton (8) 8. The Goodbye Look, Macdonald 9. The Salzburg Connection, Maclnnes (5) 10. Bullet Park, Cheever...
These scenes of death are the only things of real beauty in Peckinpah's world. Men are incredibly ugly and women valueless except for a night's sex. The railroad controls the law and does not mind massacring an entire town. IN contrast, the battles are composed of magnificent single images, images which upset us because killing is not supposed to look that good...
...brothel in which Behan's play is set (in fact, to judge from those of my relatives who came to this country, I'm sure it's not even a tiny bit as entertaining), I was nevertheless ready to leave for Ireland as soon as the play ended. Except for the fact that it would have entailed explaining the whole situation to the secretary at Charter Flights, I'd probably be in Dublin right...
...only once, in 1938, to construct a valise containing each of his important works in miniature, really a portable Duchamp museum. He kept a studio, but visitors hunting for some clue that the aging enfant terrible was working again searched in vain. Duchamp died last October, having created little except for occasional graphics, a few objects and the inevitable puns he uttered, in almost 30 years...
...brisk Bondist thriller. Instead, he has followed the B-line of movies of the '40s: a lone Amur-rican good guy against the Yellow Peril. For Imperial Japan, read People's Republic of China; for Alan Ladd, read Gregory Peck. The Chairman is a basket of bromides-except for one original line that ought to be anthologized. The chemist who developed the soil enricher murmurs to Hathaway: "We are none of us free. We are all chained to an enzyme." During the filming of The Chairman in Hong Kong, Communist Chinese newspapers warned the cast of "various serious...