Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation. I had the background and knowledge to dig in and penetrate the situations and get at the facts that I wanted to know." A somewhat different appraisal came from one top U.S. official in Saigon: "The Governor seemed bent on some kind of political kamikaze or, better said, hara-kiri...
Vivien Leigh as Scarlett is not quite what Margaret Mitchell had in mind. The book opens with the line, "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful." This Scarlett is. So beautiful that every time she has a close-up we are in danger of forgetting what the movie is about. Rarely has an actress invested her beauty with so much variety and expressiveness. Miss Leigh's performance starts in her face and works outward, refusing to compromise Scarlett's bitch-coldness with an appeal to sympathy. War and poverty violently propel her into adulthood, giving her no time to mature; beneath...
...gets none. The funny, lewd college girls only wants $50 a throw but dies in a car smashup. The local postmistress tries to seal, stamp and deliver Yank to herself, but he refuses. He stays loyal to the only thing he believes in-his talent. Then O'Hara delievers the famous left hook, Zena Gollum takes a bottle of sleeping pills and has the last word on Yank as a human being: "Dear Yank: thanks for nothing...
...Instrument succeeds for all the old reasons. O'Hara eavesdrops on speech like an electronic listening device. His authentication-buttons on clothes, furnishings in rooms-creates reality. Above all, O'Hara's small imagined world of specific conflict spreads like an opening hand to touch a much larger one. This novel about a writer's success and the husbanding of his emotions becomes a dialogue between John O'Hara and his reader...
Despite plenty of recent evidence to the contrary (The Lockwood Concern, Waiting for Winter), O'Hara knows the difference between sex and love, while Yank doesn't. In fact, O'Hara shows the tension between sex and love, between lechery and devotion, operating like a knife on his characters. But by instinct or insight, O'Hara cannot glorify heterosexual love and its institutionalization in monogamy. Gamy as ever, cruelly vital, the anti-intellectual O'Hara has written an intellectual novel in disguise, about what love...