Word: goats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GOAT SONGS by John Weston. 242 pages. Afheneum...
...only to give the book that solid $6.95 heft. The unfortunate excelsior stories, All My Bones and The Call, are summer-weight Southern gothic. in which the author follows the convention of this school by writing about the rural poor as if they were all dimwitted. The title work, Goat Songs, is something else. A series of erotic recollections links a man to his boyhood. The episodes are brief: a flicker of memory, a few moments of musing. Perceptions are intense, and in their heat the flesh of narrative falls away. Memory is capricious, not orderly, and important events occur...
...prodded along by writers like Hélène Parmelin and photographers like David Douglas Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done a zapateado before the avid lenses of a team from Paris Match, he gives...
...summer of 1970 at Fort Knox, but he neglected to report the substantial reforms that have swept over the Army since. The result is an engrossing film but failed journalism. This week the PBS Special is a revival of the 1965 off-Broadway work Hogan's Goat, which gave the world Faye Dunaway. Faye is back, and, while William Alfred's blank-verse melodrama about turn-of-the-century Irish-American politics may not be a stage classic, it is a rich adornment to the 19-in. screen. THIS WEEK aims to avoid the primarily headline news service...
...production of "Hogan's Goat" omits ten minutes from the original version, but Alfred, who worked on the production, said that he was extremely pleased with the result...