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...tradition of Hollywood barbed-wire melodrama, the kind where Otto Preminger. playing the camp commandant, was always striding about in high black boots, smoking luxuriously and sneering at his desperate charges. Indeed, there is such a character here, a Citizen Major ("I'm not going to fool around with you. If you want to go back to Siberia..."). In the old Hollywood versions, women appeared only in flashbacks. In The First Circle they are present as warders whose proximity causes some inmates to writhe on their bunks of an evening and groan, "Give me a woman...
Another recurrent Collier theme is Not Quite Beating the Game. In Bottle Party, a fool named Frank becomes the owner of two bottles, one containing a clever genie and the other imprisoning the most beautiful girl in the world. Frank uses the genie and enjoys the girl, who is also loving and compliant, but he is disquieted when he notices that whenever the girl emerges from the bottle, she wears a look of heavy-lidded satiation. He is jealous, and the genie, who is very clever indeed, leads him on by observing that there is more room in bottles than...
...time or other by George McGovern, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Gore Vidal, Yevtushenko and Gloria Steinem. $50." "All this fancy stuff doesn't appeal to me any more," Barbara explained after netting $15,000. Her next appearance: a memoir entitled Laughing All the Way, to be published on April Fool...
...child discovers that his favorite ballplayer can be traded to a rival team and play just as well. The adult learns that politicians do not have to fool all the people all the time; some of the time is usually sufficient. Now, as if the world were not disillusioning enough, we find out in Ann Charters' forthcoming biography that Jack Kerouac did not drive...
AMORPHOUS MASS Listen, a mugger you could fool...