Word: hangers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Will little Oedipus escape from his complex? The answer is a real skirt-hanger, suggesting every known perversion, until the happy ending when boy rinds a girl like Mom. The Cocteau-film atmosphere of high camp is sustained by skilled faux-simple prose, which at times evokes Heinrich Mann, at other times less skilled practitioners of psychologically sophisticated pornophilia...
Alfred makes the most of traditional devices. His protagonist is a man of pride and ambition who falls. There is a Fool, Petey Boyle, a hanger-on of Stanton's. There is a prophetic Priest, Father Coyne. The confrontations between Stanton and Quinn are carefully spaced and prepared. Alfred's nine years of writing have produced the highly controlled play which his buoyant, poetic dialogue needs for grounding...
...night wind, smelling of the sea. There it would stay all winter, threadbare on the gray earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it swallow up now a hanger, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them place by place, drained of color, black carrion on a white desert...
...Pocket. Another method for transfer was used when Wennerström attended diplomatic receptions at the Soviet embassy: "One arrives wearing an overcoat. The coat is hung on a numbered hanger far in the rear. Remembering the number, you enter the reception room, acting normally. When you meet your contact, you must greet him as usual and occasion to tell him the number. You separate, and the contact goes to the coat hangers and gets the material in the pockets." Wennerström liked to use hangers...
...dive presents another cliff-hanger for the two teams. Army's A1 Alexander just edged Danny Mahoney off the high board last year, but Mahoney came back to flip him soundly in the Easterns and the nationals. In Cambridge Mahoney would win; with Army's judges it will be close...