Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Aretha is simply not Aretha. You see flashes of her, and then she's back in her shell." Since, as a friend puts it, "Aretha comes alive only when she's singing," her only real solace is at the piano, working out a new song, going over a familiar gospel tune, or loosing her feelings in a mournful blues...
...MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar-an adolescent's search for manhood-but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous...
...response to many requests from readers, TIME is making available reproductions of last week's cover portrait by Artist Louis Glanzman of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The black-and-white copies, 15 in. by 20 in., will carry neither the TIME logotype nor the magazine's familiar border. They may be obtained by sending $1 to TIME Cover Enlargement, Box 668, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10020. At Mrs. Kennedy's request, all proceeds will go to a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fund, which his family is establishing to support the causes for which he fought...
...first novel, she operates good-naturedly in the postanalysis, guilt-free era. God is not only dead, there never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to pleasure in ever-tightening circles that lead to self-destruction. With pagan innocence, Melinda herself commits incest, adultery, child neglect, international outrage and multiple murder. Because she is not a character, but the author's representation of nascent id, Melinda cannot suffer hell and damnation. She must be ticketed to limbo...
...attitude. It is all rendered from the self-righteously smug "That's the way it was" point of view of the heroine half a century later. Thus the violence is imbued with a bigger-than-camp Bonnie and Clyde quality: the stock two-dimensional figures of the familiar western landscape become disfigured here with a three-dimensional reality as limbs are chopped off and buckshot imbeds itself painfully beneath facial skin...