Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frail alcoholic who was unable to manage his life and finally had to take refuge in hospitals. Bellow's sensitivity reaches even deeper. For he knew John Berryman the poet as well: the "Huffy Henry...wicked and away" of the Dream Songs, the narcissistic writer in Love and Fame "obsessed with a vanishing past of happiness in his present loneliness and age." Together, these intertwining images of the poet and the man set an appropriate mood for the curious confessional tone of Recovery. The novel is, after all, Berryman's own account of his attempted recovery from alcoholism...
Alan suffers from frail misconceptions of himself and love and fame. His emotions play second fiddle to his career, even while he's in the hospital. His career of course, led to drink; his wives left him because of alcohol. The tension builds within as Alan tries to cope with his own identity in his work, his public life, his ultimate search for some sense of immortality. Like a boy, who, lost in the funhouse, finds himself confronted with a hundred ghastly images in the hall of mirrors, he can only cry in self-pity and disillusionment. His rage...
...meeting of the board of H.J. Heinz's United Kingdom subsidiary, which he then headed, for one last fling on the field, joining the Irish national team in a match against England. Last week 37-year-old Tony O'Reilly established a greater claim to fame. He was picked by the parent H.J. Heinz Corp. (fiscal 1973 sales: $1.2 billion) as its president, thus becoming one of the few foreigners ever to win that title with a giant U.S.-based company. O'Reilly is the day-to-day operating head, while R. Burt Gookin, 59, remains chief...
...long-haired blonde of 28, does not like flying, so she always takes an aisle seat and avoids looking out the window. "I'm a Chaucerian, and I don't quite believe that planes are licit," she says. She recalls that Geoffrey Chaucer, in The House of Fame, described his own feeling of panic when a great golden eagle carried him off into the skies. "The eagle flies Geoffrey around on his back, and tries to show him all the marvelous things there are in the world. All Geoffrey says to each new sight...
...Forever is a trend toward genre self parody. There is much tongue in cheekiness here. The final chase sequence, a fifteen minute combined car-boat chase through the Louisiana bayous, even manages to introduce and develop a major character, a sheriff tightly based on the Dodge Sheriff of advertisement fame...