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...owned a Stanley and I had a Doble. The Doble was a great machine, but they both had two big flaws . . . For one thing it took anywhere up to five minutes to get up a head of steam, and the goddam garage could burn down in that time. And also you couldn't get more than 70 or 80 miles to a tankf ul of water...
...amalgam of the last names of Movie Stars William Holden and Joan Caulfield." Yeah, well . . . And yet my obsessive cinematic fantasies were really everyone's hang-up with nostalgia, camp and collective memory. Remember me camping it up with my roommate Stradlater: "I'm the goddam Governor's son ... He doesn't want me to be a tap dancer. He wants me to go to Oxford. But it's in my goddam blood, tap-dancing." Movies made all of us. That's why we don't know how to really feel about them...
More tapings followed, although they were not continuous, since Hughes often rambled and was sometimes irritated by the recorder. "Turn that goddam thing off," he once told Irving. "It's driving me crazy." Up to this point, Hughes had been appropriating the tapes at the end of each session and providing Irving with transcriptions later. But since the copies were poor, Irving pleaded to be allowed to transcribe the tapes himself. Hughes agreed, on condition that the tapes never leave the guarded room where they were working. According to McGraw-Hill's Vice President for General Books Albert Leventhal: "Irving...
Vampire Bat. Ozzie, played with translucent poignancy by Tom Aldredge, is tortured by lost youth, lost potency, lost possibilities. He cries out for a past when he wore no straitjacket: "I was nobody's goddam father. I was nobody's goddam husband, and I could run-nobody could run the way I could run-run for the sun." That is pain distilled into compassion, a special gift of David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David...
...ballot, he turned the election into an all but meaningless referendum on his own performance in office (see THE WORLD). In Washington, Administration leaders were utterly dejected. "To say that we're disappointed gets nowhere near the depth of it," said one. "It's a goddam mess...