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...clear allusion to Rose-Fancier Vyacheslav Molotov, the poem says that some of Stalin's other heirs "prune roses in retirement, and secretly consider retirement only temporary." Some secret Stalinists "curse Stalin from the podium; but then, by night, they long for the old days." To foil their ambitions, Evtushenko pleads...
...disorder pica (rhymes with Micah), from the Latin for magpie. But whereas the magpie merely collects assorted, useless objects, the pica victim eats them. Favorite items are newspapers, toilet and handkerchief tissues, clay and sand, wood, cigarettes and butts, used matches, laundry starch, crayons, grass and leaves, soap, aluminum foil-and even bugs. One girl of 14 ate several pages of newspaper every day, and found the classified ads especially tasty...
...KING'S MEN, which is made of snippets from the book, could be called Brechtian if it were at all successful, but it isn't. Instead, all its hundreds of tine little scenes misfire, and its connective device of a nagging professor, brought in as a foil to Jack Burden, the novel's narrator, simply irritates. The whole thing resembles nothing so much as a College Outline of the book, and only serves to remind one of how very good the book...
After that the movie becomes a manhunt, as the cowboy fugitive rides, tugs, curses and coaxes his horse Whisky up and up through cruel ridge country toward the hoped-for haven of an immense stand of forest. The machines close in again, but a rifle can still foil a helicopter and a rifle butt can stun a stupid, pursuing jail guard...
Tuesday nights more than ordinarily bearable in the Wasteland. Last week's special was Burnett at her manic best. Instead of ending up as a homemade foil for the urbane Andrews charms, she came near to clomping away with the whole show...