Word: heros
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scandal for a tarnished hero...
...Trot, which was excerpted last small in Sports Illustrated, and will be called by many another pro football novel, is not quite as good, I am sad to report. Readers of the sports pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero has move from offense to defense, is cornerback Ezra Lytle--a cuckold who gets his kicks with 11-years-olds--modeled at least in part on the Cowboy star of yore, Lance Rentzel? And who really is L.D. Groover, the 270-lb. defensive tackle and disciple of Wilhelm Reich...
...Faure, whose father had also died at the Marne. When Francine's sister observed that Albert's ears stuck out of his head in simian fashion, Francine replied defensively, "The monkey is the animal closest to man." Three years later, the monkey was famous. Meursault, the anti-hero of Camus's first novel, The Stranger, characterized the Absurd Man who lives outside of sentiment or tradition: "Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can't be sure...
...crowded, cramping your style. You're wrecked, and your best friend, with blurry-eyed bravado, suggests you go see the greatest movie ever made at its midnight showing at the Welles, Pink Flamingoes. Can you hold you liquor? How unshakable is your friendship? Because this movie and its transvestite hero(ine) Divine aim to reverse your digestive process, and may well succeed. Or perhaps you too consider life reducible to the most blatantly vile, the most howlingly revolting possible common denominator...
Flesh Gordon. If you're a little less stewed, maybe you can convince your buddy that Flesh Gordon is really lots better. It isn't, but it's shorter. Parodying the thirties Flash Gordon series, Flesh, an all-American Mr. Clean hero and his two musketeers, pursue the evil sex ray to its source, discovering a sexual munchkin land where Prince Precious and his tandy tribe frolic in spite of the Evil Wang's despotic rule. The special effects--including penises as monsters, trees, spaceships, etc.--all seem like the products of a pervert with a chemistry set in someone...