Word: hemingways
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...life which, if no longer world-jarring, is at least meaningful to himself and a few others. The heyday of the Victorian novel is past; the effort to capture the rush of perishable existence died with Joyce and Lawrence; the author-as-hero is gone with Camus and Hemingway; and in their place is now the professional writer, making a living like anyone else. This is a truthful image because, as Updike remarks in "One Big Interview," our age is a sedate...
...such a mood, he muses about retirement: "After all, I've been at it for 30 years. At my age Scott Fitzgerald had been dead for six years, Hemingway had nearly stopped, Faulkner wasn't much good. It might be a good idea to stop while you have all your marbles...
...Hemingway should have had it so good. Former Domestic Affairs Chief John Ehrlichman, who received a $50,000 advance from Simon & Schuster for his first novel, has now peddled film rights to the book to Paramount Pictures. His price: an estimated $75,000. Titled The Company and due in the stores by May, it is about a U.S. President who dabbles in domestic spying, then faces blackmail by the CIA. "If I stick to a routine and don't get too loose, I can write 15 to 25 pages a day," says Ehrlichman. Now appealing his 1975 conviction...
...model, Margaux Hemingway had graced enough fashion pages to sup port a Boy Scout paper drive; as a businesswoman, she held a $1 million contract from Faberge for plugging perfume. What else could there...
...cast is all Oriental and, in Kabuki style, uses men even in most of the women's roles. Much of the show's inaction rests with a narrator aptly called "Reciter" (Mako). Kabuki notwithstanding, this ignores the spare and intensely dramatic injunction that Gertrude Stein gave Hemingway: "Don't describe; render...