Word: grotesquesness
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Warren moves as sure-footed as ever through an intricate plot. Fiddlersburg, a town in Tennessee, is about to disappear under the waters of a federal dam; its citizens are thus caught at a time when they are most inclined to be articulate about themselves. Preachers, philosophers and local grotesques...
There is an unavoidable air of patronage in this, as there is in even a good documentary film about Eskimo customs or shaman cultists of the Kamchatka Peninsula. Miss Dawkins is clearly a more highly civilized woman than the people she writes about. However, she bridges the distance between herself...
Jerome Weidman, who wrote Fiorello!, has written a courtroom play called The Ivory Tower about a poet like Ezra Pound who is tried for treason for making wartime broadcasts telling American troops to lay down their arms (November). Franchot Tone stars in Bicycle Ride to Nevada, an adaptation of Barnaby...
Novelist Herbert Gold, 39, has as cruel an eye for human foibles as Hieronymus Bosch, but his heart is awash with love of the world. At his best, this has made him a kind of romantic poet turned pitchman for the seamy side of life. Miraculously blending hip talk, shop...
"A Little Theatrical." Stern develops an ulcer, ''a hairy, coarse-tufted little animal within him that squawked for nourishment," and is sent to a nightmarish rest home populated by a brilliant set of grotesques that might be right out of Hieronymus Bosch. Stern emerges to have a nervous...