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...certain distance, vision fades and imagination takes over. Try as they might, imitators never succeed in exactly reproducing the past. The eye of memory takes in 1936 and the elegance of an Astaire dance or the froth of a Lubitsch comedy; it is blind to Depression breadlines. It catches the shapely legs of Rita Hayworth in 1944's hot pants but neglects the 500,000 U.S. war casualties of that year. It is amused by the crew cuts and slang of 1953 but forgets the anti-Communist hysteria and the fear that followed detonation of Russia's first...
...call these efforts plays is a massive overstatement. They offer nothing more than a two-hour supply of mouth froth, a dentifrice rather than a drama. Vonnegut's cute conceit has been to debunk the Ulysses myth in terms of the Hemingway legend. As Vonnegut sees it, war is a kind of priapic transplant for men whose sexual insecurity demands the bolstering arsenal of the sword, the gun, the hunt and the kill. As amateur psychologizing, that may be perfectly acceptable; as drama, it turns out to be perfectly dreadful...
Young Stefan preened the cantaloupe froth mustache he had grown. "Just like the real one I would have if I could," he said...
...banks-led last week's advance. On the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow-Jones industrial average rose 6½ points this week, a gain of 40 points from its seven-year low of 744 on Jan. 30. The rally has been notable for its lack of speculative froth. Many glamour stocks have behaved erratically, up one day, down the next, while blue chips have surged ahead. General Motors, for example, gained $3 a share last week and long-depressed General Electric...
THAT MAN is the enemy. I've gotten a pretty good neo-revisionist view of history but deep down inside I know that all the explanations, rising gentry, angry aristocracy, outmoded government is just froth. There is now, and has always been, a conspiracy that causes all events in human life. Talk about Mao, Cromwell, Lenin, Sam Adams, but they were just the tools. Behind them a group of no more than twenty things ran everything. Things half spirit and half deformities: the head thing looks like Charles Laughton's hunchback only more so. Yessir it's all true! Conspiracy...