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...Phony," that most perfect word of Holden Caufield's vocabulary. That most concise sense of Salinger's classic work. And yet phoniness, like its sibling rival, sincerity, does not find expression in some sterile post-production studio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...convey Holden's view one would have to shoot the entire film with some special distorted lens or some especially brilliant acting that would expose the phoniness that Salinger's narrative so painfully conveys--say, making headmasters look more literally like dachshunds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honesty Is Occasionally a Virtue | 9/26/1985 | See Source »

...What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flick Lit Suspects | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Harvard Real Estate (HRE) last month published proposed rent hikes averaging 9 percent for all living quarters and ranging from 30 percent for one-bedroom Holden Green apartments to I percent for studio apartments at Soldiers Field Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRE Announces Rent Increases | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Disney Das Kapital. In Dune, rival masters from four planets battled for control of "melange," an addictive spice that conferred powers of prophecy and transcendence. Here was an inter-galactic Colombian drug war, with a stash of celestial LSD waiting to be harnessed by a teen-age messiah-Holden Caulfield maturing into Che Guevara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Fantasy Film as Final Exam | 12/17/1984 | See Source »

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