Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Melancholy and an aching sense of loneliness pervade this screen version of James Leo Herlihy's novel about the unlikely friendship of two loners in New York. The acting by Dustin Hoffman and Newcomer Jon Voight is excellent, even though John Schlesinger's direction sometimes becomes too slick...
...sure, Fielding uses the Guide to praise his friends and publicize his prejudices. He has been sued 39 times for libel, but has lost only once, when he had to pay $3,800 to taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...
...previous novels, Love and Friendship, The Nowhere City and Imaginary Friends, Alison Lurie has earned a reputation as a dry satirist by preying on such vulnerable chickens as the academic life, extramarital affairs, Los Angeles as nightmare, sociology as pseudo science, and flying-saucer cultism as false religion. As a subject, Miss Lurie's minor lady writer is not exactly a meal-in-itself, although the author again demonstrates her special skill at killing swiftly, cleanly and coldbloodedly...
Grass points his finger at those who do not act when they should as well as at those who commit a crime. He scorns David Ben-Gurion for saving his friendship with Konrad Adenauer in the face of Adenauer's appointment of Hans Globke as a cabinet minister. Globke wrote the commentaries to the Nuremberg race laws, Grass points out. He agrees with the German students who hate Axel Casar Springer, the press lord who preaches violence, who is a "co-chancellor, who is accountable to no Parliament, who cannot be voted out of office...
...gallery, but they are also "the work of notable artists of our time." Washington officials, lawmakers and diplomats turned out to admire the portraits and toast the artists-many of whom were present along with their subjects. Jazz Pianist Thelonious Monk was on hand to renew his friendship with Artist Boris Chaliapin. His portrait, Monk admitted, pleased him "more now than when I first saw it." HUD Secretary George Romney joined Senators Javits and Fulbright, along with CIA Director Richard Helms, former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, the city's mayor, Walter Washington, and a roster of other notable guests...