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...when private ironies and quiet implosions of emotion gave way to a journalistic relevance. In current fiction that usually means female counterparts of Saul Bellow's Dangling Man. The crucial difference is that today most heroines seem free of the need to huff and puff about the Big Questions: the loss of tradition, unpardonable guilt, the death of God. They certainly never ponder man's fate...
Lenny Bruce, striding past taboos that stood as barriers to communication, was a liberator of language. When Bruce ripped through his monologue, his audience could do one of two things: laugh in self-conscious embarassment or leave in a huff. The early '60s comedian--probably the most controversial in the trade's history--mined a rich, dark vein of American humor; he dug for the mother lode--religion, race, drugs, sex, morals. He rooted through the secret and sordid alleys of the subconscious, exposing them to an unsettlingly clear light...
Sarah Anne Huff, pianist, will give a free recital of works by Bach, Ravel, Faure and Chopin at B.U.'s School for the Arts' Concert Hall...
Sarah Anne Huff at the School for the Arts...
Journalists who write of Bobby's clients have received by mail address books and other gifts by Gucci. He spends seven hours on the phone each day; when one reporter hung up in a huff, she too received a personal Zarem note-along with a marijuana joint...