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This happened at one of the last Ford Dinners held in Kirkland House last year. A Fore Dinner is funded by the Ford Foundation and includes a famous visitor, and I believe all the Houses have them or something like them. In the course of the year I missed any number of Ford Dinners at Kirkland House. Among the famous people I did not see were B.F. Skinner and Leonard Bernstein. For the last dinner of the year the guest was to be I.A. Richards, a famous literary critic, none of whose books I had ever read or knew anything...
Erdman, who grew up in the Midwest, exudes a boyish enthusiasm. He seems to be an irrepressible doer. Be fore leaving jail, he had not only writ ten the novel but revamped the prison library system and persuaded the war den to paint the cells in cheerful col ors. His own accommodations were not unpleasant. He had television, radio, all the books he wanted - and a typewriter...
...meticulously apportioned lavishness. Adjectives tend to buckle under its splendors. One chubby royal playboy, Jagat Singh II of Mewar, spent ?250,000 - at a time when a field peasant might hope to earn seven shillings a year - building and embellishing pavilions on the islands of his private lake, be fore he died at the tender age of 18 in 1752. Because miniature painting was the court art par excellence, a distillate of countless man-hours for people with infinite leisure, it provides a spyhole to the detail of this vanished culture...
...taken seriously. The heroine just wants to be taken. The girl is Georgina Spevlin, portraying a suicidal virgin who finds herself in limbo, on her way to damnation. She talks Lucifer's regional vice president (John Clemens) into giving her a chance to wallow in lust be fore being whisked off to her fate. The film is all about her wallowing, rendered in vivid detail by Director Gerard Damiano, the man responsible for pornography's biggest-gross film, Deep Throat. Having titillated curious audiences and outraged the courts with his previous effort, Damiano has now decided to teach...
...small pleasure. But they give themselves to different men in the doomed hope that they will find their identity at the point where all the lines of male force intersect. Even motherhood fails to bring Moravian women alive. Mirrors appear again and again, mocking the ladies who stand be fore them for being less real than their reflections. In Moravia's world, the furniture has more personality than the people who sit upon...