Word: gavin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course the students all secretly hope that they will be "discovered" at a conference. Occasionally that dream comes true, as it did for soft-spoken Tom Gavin, now an assistant professor at Middlebury. He first went to Bread Loaf as a contributor in 1973, with 75 pages of manuscript under his arm. "What I needed was someone to say 'Hey, you're on the right track,' " recalls Gavin. He was duly encouraged and returned the next year with 125 pages, which Gardner then analyzed, suggesting a revision in the rhythm. This year Tom Gavin was back...
...Pedro Beach Bums are five California boys on a rundown boat; Operation Petticoat, based on the old Gary Grant flick, unites a crew of sailors on a pink submarine and a contingent of bosomy nurses-war is swell, apparently. And in The Love Boat, Gavin McLeod of The Mary Tyler Moore Show steers a cruise ship down the California coast...
Directed by ANTHONY PAGE Screenplay by GAVIN LAMBERT and LEWIS JOHN CARLINO
...much is history. First Novelist Thomas Gavin, 36, reopens this long-closed case with a single question: What if Schlumberger did not die when the newspapers claimed but lived on in obscurity, composing a private journal of his bizarre life? If such a document existed, it might tell something worth hearing about a chess genius who mysteriously elected to spend twelve years playing inferior opponents while anonymously stuffed in an airless, sweltering box. Gavin asserts that such a document did exist and that Kingkill is based on it. With this single shading of fact into fiction, the performance begins...
...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...