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...reigning past master of the rock-'n'-roll fever dream, Elvis Costello, and set him a tough mark to match. Minutes after bounding onstage at Hollywood High in Los Angeles, Lowe and Edmunds had the crowd dancing and cheering. "Bitchin'!" gushed one high school lad. Said Linda Ronstadt, who crashed the high school party: "That was the best rock 'n' roll I've heard in years. I loved the sense of humor in his music...
...devil's disciples assigned to protect the secret of his origins and mission. In the new movie most of Damien's protectors telegraph their satanic allegiance the minute they appear, and William Holden as his decent uncle-guardian is constantly kept at a distance from the lad's evil doings...
...life are fairly well known, and Bair adds nothing major to them. But her accretion of small details softens the hard edges of Beckett's known past and published works. Born into a prosperous Irish Protestant family in 1906, Beckett was a crashingly normal, if sometimes diffident lad up through his graduation from Trinity College, Dublin. His skill with languages brought him a two-year fellowship in Paris and the promise of a teaching post at Trinity when he finished. In Paris, Beckett joined the circle of acolytes surrounding James Joyce; the young Irishman's first published work...
...this lad, but someone we have scarcely noticed-Katha's silent and solitary nephew-who brings the summer to an end in tragedy. He makes us feel, like the characters, that we should have paid attention to him, should have been less caught up in the more colorful melodramas going on around him and in the abstractions they have given rise...
...remember my first trip to Radio City Music Hall, back in the early '60s, when I was but a wee lad. I went with my grandparents, and we stood for two hours in a line that wrapped around the building, across Sixth Avenue and down 50th St. When we got into the movie palace, it was filled with huge bronze statues, large smoked-glass mirrors, and the biggest candy counter I'd ever seen...