Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legal controversy is familiar ground to Ralph Ginzburg. Thus the self- publicizing publisher, who became a cause celebre when he spent eight months in jail in 1972 on obscenity and pandering charges for sending his Eros magazine through the mails, was greatly offended by the wording on a federal traffic ticket he received last summer. At a national park in Queens, N.Y., Ginzburg, who had a foot injury, was granted permission to leave his car in a section reserved for the handicapped. Upon returning, he found a ticket marked "Violator's Copy." Notes Ginzburg, no neophyte when it comes...
...True, his summer appearance in Seattle in the title role of King Lear was modestly successful and personally satisfying. But during the run, his wife of some 20 years left him; his two sons are far away and growing increasingly remote; and he is back in Hollywood pursuing some familiar bad habits: "For the past few weeks, he had been getting by on alcohol and a ten- gram stash of cocaine and he had begun to feel as though he might die quite soon...
...Those familiar with any of Author Robert Stone's three earlier novels will immediately recognize Gordon Walker as one of the writer's wounded refugees of the 1960s and a very bad accident waiting to happen. Part of the fascination of Children of Light comes from watching the author nudge his damaged hero through seedy surroundings down the path toward disaster. Walker has what he thinks is a good idea. He will drive down the Baja peninsula to where a screenplay of his is being shot. He wants to see Lu Anne Bourgeois, a former lover and soul mate...
Robert Ludlum knows what all successful storytellers and hamburger makers know: the public likes consistency. A Ludlum novel reads like a Ludlum novel, just as a Big Mac tastes like a Big Mac. The Bourne Supremacy is doubly familiar. The hairy-chested prose ("No man was a match for him; no eyes, no throat, no groin safe from an assault, swift and agonizing") and the conspiratorial plotting are stock Ludlum. So is the hero, Jason Bourne. Readers of The Bourne Identity (1980) will recognize him as the cover name for David Webb, the American Orientalist who was used to lure...
...grain, at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote?" Astonishing that democracy ever prevails, the unwieldy comic hero of stage and screen. The Philippines offered astonishment. Somewhere in people's minds, among the vacillations and flaccidities, an insistent voice resides, murmuring the old familiar lines: Everyone counts. Everyone is responsible for the honor of his life. Try not to forget what you saw last week. It was ourselves in eruption far away...