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...human level, though, how about the USC Trojans? Descendants remain of ancient Ilium, sacked by the Greeks many moons ago (dirty trick that horse was, huh?), and old King Priam. Have they been consulted about the school’s mascot Traveler, a white horse with an armored warrior astride? That militaristic imagery certainly depicts residents of Troy in a potentially hurtful...
Kilgore Trout. The geography of Vonnegut's universe extends from the inferno of Dresden, where he underwent the fire-raids of World War II (Slaughterhouse-Five), to the purgatory of Ilium, alias Schenectady, N.Y., where he labored unhappily as a public relations man for General Electric (Player Piano). It also includes the mysterious paradise of Tralfamadore, a planet where little green men explain to earthlings that time is not a flowing river but a range of mountains, all eternally coexistent. Many of Vonnegut's characters, too, coexist from book to book. Kilgore Trout, the science-fiction writer...
...ideas. He doesn't link up Dresden with any inherent political or social conflicts it symbolizes, implying instead a state of moral squalor necessary for such a catastrophe to have taken place. And his vision is only that of Bill Pilgrim, a stupid if sweethearted protagonist, bumbling between the Ilium upper-middle-class of Vonnegut's present, the Dresden holocaust, and the planet Tralfamadore, where he cavorts with a nubile Hollywood starlet in a fantasy-world designed to protect him from being fatally bound to his depressing earthliness...
...believes that "the well-exercised body should not be encased." But he wisely concentrates on baring the safest female area for general display-the back. One slinky black jersey by Halston has a centerfold cutout scooped so low that it frames the lady's sacrum, covering only her ilium...
...most widely popular novel, an attempt to impose comic order onto moral chaos. But it has been adapted here with undue reverence. The movie cuts from World War II, where Pilgrim is a P.O.W. during the fire-bombing of Dresden, through his model suburbanite's life in Ilium, N.Y., to an improbable future on the planet of Tralfamadore, where he is doomed to pass eternity with a molestable movie star named Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine). In its elaborate structure and editing, its leaping bounds between fact and fancy, the film is like a version of Last Year in Marienbad...