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...Lacerda, is "a mental weakling" whose plans are "leakier than a boardinghouse showerhead." On the one hand, Lacerda accused Campos of selling out to U.S. businessmen by offering favorable deals to investors; on the other, he railed that Campos had throttled Brazil's development by imposing an unduly harsh austerity. "Instability, insecurity and disorder have been succeeded by depression, perplexity, gloom and unemployment," said Lacerda. And he added: "The price of the depression will be either dictatorship or the return of those we threw...
Tiny little problems do crop up, however. Sex. Money. Family. When his harsh father (Arthur Kennedy) cuts off support, Richard has to take a night-watchman's job. Yvette causes gossip when she befriends a pansy florist and accepts baby-sitting jobs at the home of a kept woman. But soon Yvette becomes pregnant, and spring arrives bringing birdsong, title song, birth, graduation, and a proper Catholic wedding. Short of a winning ticket in the Irish Sweepstakes, who could ask for anything more...
Simon's friends are not necessarily surprised by the critics who accuse him of being harsh, stubborn and inconsistent. "I don't think he has a precise, eternal objective," says U.C.L.A.'s Murphy. "His objective changes. I think his fascination is with the process." As for Simon's wife, she seems to understand: "He may go to bed at night intending to fly to New York in the morning, but by morning he has changed his mind. He is extremely flexible, and I think it is because he is constantly in the process of becoming." People around Simon have...
TAKEN CARE OF, by Edith Sitwell. Memoirs completed shortly before Dame Edith's death last year that shed harsh new light on a gifted metaphysical poet and a self-dramatist who acted out endless roles for herself with astounding audacity and imagination...
...sizzling, as a matter of fact, wherever Dame Edith happened to be. For almost half a century she spat fire and spouted verses that perceptibly elevated the social and intellectual temperature of her times. In this autobiography, a thing of brilliant shreds and banal patches, Dame Edith throws a harsh new light on the life of the poet and the genesis of the eccentric. And incidentally applies to her contemporaries a number of nifty posthumous hotfoots...