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...Vidal entered a movie theater "to see some old March of Time newsreels. And there, suddenly, was my father. It made an extraordinary impact on me. He must have been about 35, and there I was, older than that, watching him. It was very strange. I was very, very fond...
...include it? Nevertheless this starts him off on a long reverie of nostalgia for his days as a chapel boy, from which he awakes a few pages later, and returns to thoughts of his mother. In fact, the book seems more like a letter to himself; he is quite fond of discreetly recounting the dinners and accolades he has amassed...
...because of my fond memories of the Crimson that I write this, for I do not know Chris Daly and would not otherwise have responded to his review (which was just mailed to me). But I hope the Crimson still cherishes the first three rules of journalism--accuracy, accuracy, accuracy...
...hard-earned money of the western people. Miles Ignotus is quite explicit in this respect, including not only the Arabs, but other Third World peoples as well: "military dictators and megalomaniacal kings of OPEC," "narrow self-appointed ruling groups (elections have become a rarity in Asia and Africa) fond of shiny black cars and numbered Swiss accounts," not to mention the by-now infamous "OPEC extortionists" and "Arab blackmailers...
...Fond, canny, breakaway funny, Paul Mazursky's Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a comic reminiscence about salad days around Washington Square, the tough lessons and small victories that mark the end of growing up. What is best about Mazursky's work (Alex in Wonderland, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto) comes from his affectionate kind of satire, always clear-eyed and almost never derisive. Mazursky is a good spirit, and this is perhaps the most closely autobiographical of all his movies. Like Larry, he was a scuffling New York actor (he showed up as one of the leads...