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...disgrace. I really dare not name to you The awful things that rabbits do. With this barking doggerel in view, Richard Adams created Water ship Down. That bestselling odyssey of a colony of migrating conies is very much like the adventures of prep school lads dressed up in fur costumes. Only occasionally do the principals seem to act as if they really had long ears and cottontails-and at those junctures the book ceases to be Water ship Down and becomes, instead, a little 1964 volume entitled The Private Life of the Rabbit by R.M. Lockley...
...production staff has worked wonders, considering the Ex's limited budget. The set for Brock's "$235-dollar-a-day" hotel suite comes complete with foliage, statuary, and Louis XIV furniture. And the costume crew seems to have had a ball decking out Billie in sequins, feathers, fake fur and silver lame...
...like gum bichromate, solarization, and cyanotype--and new chemical processes like polaroid and 3-M color. They borrow images from television and porno-magazines, create scenes in the darkroom which were never seen by a camera's eye and photosensitize anything they can get their hands on--including plexiglass, fur and linen. As Aaron Siskind, a documentary photographer whose work later became much more abstract, said, "...as the language or vocabulary of photography has been extended, the emphasis of meaning has shifted--shifted from what the world looks like to what we feel about the world and what we want...
...school English classes. Also attacked was a collection of myths that appeared to challenge the literal interpretation of the Bible, to be used in junior high school classes. Others found an E.E. Cummings poem with lines like the one referring to pubic hair as "shocking fuzz of your electric fur" too erotic. At an open meeting in June, jeers, shouts of "Communist!" and threats drowned out the few who spoke in favor of the books...
...narrative well. He organizes the book as a series of interconnected novellas, focusing each on one or two central characters. The tale of the shrewd French trapper Pasquinel and his Scottish partner McKeag becomes a roving chronicle of the West from St. Louis to the Rockies in the early fur-trading days. In a later set piece, Michener brings pageantry to the ancient cliché of the cattle drovers beset by thirst and outlaws on the long trail from Jacks-borough, Texas, to the South Platte...