Word: illusioners
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The characters are paper cutups, and the story line consists of anecdotal blackouts. Once the red-and-blue personality of Superman/Clark Kent (Bob Holiday) is crayoned in, he has no place to go but up; unfortunately, his numerous nights via an illusion-defying shiny steel wire give no perceptible lift...
In these poems, as in Grass's novels, irony comes tinged with terror, and terror reflects a tenderness for all things that live enshelled in illusion, controlled by forces they cannot control. At times he intones a still sad music of aimless modernity:
Weaver's intellectual and professional credentials are impressive. He is a Harvard Ph.D. (economics, '34), the author of four books on city problems, a canny, cautious veteran of 22 years of Government manpower and housing bureaucracies. As the first Negro ever to hold Cabinet rank, Weaver reasons that...
Giuseppe himself was no noble-just a wily, smily commoner with an aristocrat's taste for the high life and an artist's delight in illusion. Inflamed by the success of an earlier minor effort, he determines to fill a hiatus in the historical records with a phony...
Truffaut, meanwhile, has chosen to experiment with content rather than technique. His Shoot the Piano Player of 1960 and The Soft Skin of 1964 both maintain a tenuous balance between seriousness and self-parody, providing several layers of possible interpretation. Truffaut toys with the reactions of his audience, leading them...