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...portrait is of a tormented, intensely private man who hid his true face as he hid the meanings of his poems. No, Matthews says-clearing away the kind of speculation that even a researcher who means to do honor to his subject must revive and deal with-Eliot was not a homosexual. Yes, he had "a lifelong horror of women," although Matthews might better have said a horror of sex, since, as the book points out in another connection, there were perhaps more women than men among the very few people with whom Eliot had close friendships. No, his sickly...
...where at the end of the day a rich odor of bacon cooking came drifting from some nearby shack or trailer. "They've got it fixed up real pretty," said the man we asked for directions, "with them long white fences goin up the hill and the house is hid in the trees...
...commotion is over The Exorcist, and it's a more honest fuss over a less honest movie. People see The Exorcist because they want to be scared. They want to feel the emotion of the movie, and they say so. But people who saw Last Tango in Paris hid behind critical pretension. Not many people would admit they wanted to see the movie to feel the sex, the passion and the hate it contained. The audience, like the critics, thought its role was to decide whether Last Tango is the film of the century. Exorcist audiences talk afterwards about...
...more for its effect on the brilliance of its surface than on the soundness and originality of its conception. Just as the magnificence of Shah Abbas's public buildings masked the growing corruption of the society they glorified, the gold leaf and arabesques of Isfahan's art too often hid hackneyed ideas and careless workmanship. Isfahan fades like a mirage when you try to touch it. Yet, seen from the right distance, the dreamlike perfection of the surface almost makes up for the emptiness behind...
...EXORCIST is a hit in the way that the Sharon Tate killings were. It is perversion as mystery. The characters are treated at such a hostile distance that you are inured to their pain, absolved of all connection with what happens to them. The people leaving the theater hid between their shoulders like the prisoners you see in documentaries of concentration camps. Nobody had gone to have a happy time at the movie. The movie is entertainment for lifers, a trip for the down and out. Kicks were all the audience wanted and cruel kicks they got. They got their...