Word: journalistic
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Although outdistanced by Trilling's earlier effort, Journalist Shana Alexander has lavished her considerable reportorial skills on Very Much a Lady, interviewing hundreds of people who knew the doctor and his lover. Alexander has emerged with a portrait of Harris' selfish, hardhearted, authoritarian father that goes far to explain her longstanding tolerance of Tarnower's ill-treatment. The author acknowledges a sense of identification with Harris ("she reminds me of me"). But that partisanship does not prevent her from leading the reader through every squalid stage of Harris' 14-year affair with Tarnower. The Scarsdale physician...
...coach behind them, humanity rides (or anyway a curious cross section of it). The passengers include weary, white-clad Casanova (Marcello Mastroianni), who now spends his time fending off women rather than seducing them; Tom Paine (Harvey Keitel), pamphleteer of the American rebellion; and the journalist Restif de la Bretonne (Jean-Louis Barrault), to name just the historical personages aboard. Among the fictional creations are a lady-in-waiting to the Queen (Hanna Schygulla), Her Majesty's snippy homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading...
DIED. Robert Payne, 71, prolific novelist, translator, poet and biographer of men of power; following a stroke; in Hamilton, Bermuda. An English-born naturalized American citizen who worked as a journalist in Spain, a shipwright in Singapore and a professor of English literature in China and Alabama, Payne produced as many as six or seven books a year on subjects ranging from early Christian history to Greta Garbo's films. His best-known works, biographies of such men as Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and Gandhi, were highly readable but broke little new interpretive or historical ground...
...years of naval service, I have never seen a naval officer with his coat collar turned up like a journalist's. Pug also should have been wearing a white silk scarf. Otherwise it was a nice shot of Mitchum...
Much the same disease of overambition has quite clearly seized Peter Weir, director of the latest from Hollywood on Southeast Asia, The Year of Living Dangerously. In fact, one is struck by the general stylistic similarities between Apocalypse and this account of a journalist's adventures in 1965 Indonesia. The garbled plot; the unfocused, almost dream-like effect of the storyline: the infuriating sense of deeper meaning--these tell-tale syptoms of Coppolitis ooze through the seams of this beautifully filmed pastiche of Asia...