Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which each did a special, signed design. The art was not reserved completely for the distaff; one Charles Pratt of Philadelphia made 33 Biblical picture quilts, each composed of 30,000 half-inch squares. Still, bees buzzed mainly with the gossip of busy women clustered around the quilting frame, darting their threads to their chatter...
These happenings make no literary sense. They belong in a fashionably satiric exposition of meaninglessness, or a novel of foul disillusion of the kind written so joyously by college boys. Novelist Frame, a New Zealander who has written excellent novels (Owls Do Cry, Faces in the Water) in the past, is too fine a writer to puff up emptiness in such...
...ADAPTABLE MAN by Janet Frame. 277 pages. Braziller...
This is what the reader sees at the outset through the author's acute eyes. But abruptly the quality of vision changes; instead of saying, "Look, deep within this character is a flaw," Novelist Frame begins to say, in effect, "how opaque is the soul, how futile to examine its surface." From this point the novel becomes a series of aimless events and objectless soliloquies. Although no one seems insane, the tensions of madness, which have preoccupied the author in her earlier writing, are injected in a mechanical and unconvincing way. Son Alwyn murders an Italian farm laborer...
...Knack moves too fast to let you or the actors take it seriously. After you've gulped down the last frame, and you've stopped warmly tottering out of the theatre, you're sure of just two things: you're seen a very funny movie, and Rita Tushingham is the greatest girl ever made...