Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kremen is, I guess, what the boys over in William James would call a participant-observer. He's fiercely determined to cram as much experience into a soujourn away from New York as possible, reveling in bars and dirt and cheap hotels and the like. Anything that smacks of either youth culture or the working class or, best of all, a combination of the two, sends him into ecstasy. Smoking marijuana, for instance, especially in a factory or a commune, is always tremendously meaningful: "The smoke striking into my lungs sends my blood leaping. And soon the flying sparks...
Special attention should be drawn to the Krupp concentration camp at Buschmannshof where babies and small children of factory workers were murdered from 1942 to 1945. There are no known survivors and one can only guess at how many hundreds were killed...
...committing himself only for the next clue, walking out on Dunaway in the middle of the night. Dunaway herself has never seemed fuller or more powerful. A sense of maturity controls her tension, carries off her partial duplicities. John Huston is also surprisingly good--and better directed, I'd guess--in the dirty old rich man's role...
Parkhurst's future as a publisher seems assured; Overdrive is a secure financial operation. Whether he will realize his aim of organizing the independents is anyone's guess...
...probably just to stymie the ambitions of his bete noire, John Lindsay. A Fordham-educated lawyer who has proved expert at traditional back-room gambits, he is the son of a retired local judge who was, he says, "very independent and a pain to everybody -so I guess we're alike...