Word: latter-day
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...lifeless. The effect may be intentional. Hawkes displays the paraphernalia of pornography in a cautionary manner. Both tales end in a kind of hellfire. Seigneur is burned at the stake by some vengeful ex-pupils, and Virginie voluntarily joins him; Bocage's mother puts an end to the latter-day revels by torching her house. These fates are not surprising. Virginie foreshadows her fiery destructions throughout her journals. Other forms of suspense are similarly lacking; the second story recapitulates the first with increasing listlessness. If Hawkes set out to show that erotic literature can be (and often has been...
DIED. Lester Bangs, 33, influential, hard-living rock critic whose reviews for Rolling Stone and Creem magazines and the Village Voice reflected and refracted the raw vitality of latter-day rock 'n' roll; of unknown causes; in New York City...
...becomes the toast of all Europe. When Svengali dies, so does Trilby's voice. In a two-hour, made-for-television movie titled Svengali, Jodie Foster (Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone), 19, plays a rock 'n' roll Trilby smoothed into a Streisand by Peter OToole's latter-day Svengali. Foster is on leave this semester from Yale, where she is a sophomore majoring in literature. Has she been doing her homework? Not much, it seems. "I have a copy of Trilby" Foster says, "but I haven't even read...
...latter-day Wagner gallantly reaching for the 20th century's Gesamtkunstwerk (all-embracing work of art). But he fell far short. Given the present-day disinclination of opera houses to produce untried, experimental and expensive new works, as well as a changing musical aesthetic that now looks upon serialism merely as a compositional tool and not an end in itself, it is unlikely that Die Soldaten will spawn any successors. -By Michael Walsh
...grandeur by its setting and the cheerful, unassuming invincibility of its characters. Blessed with the warmth and goodness of home movies, Heartland's professionalism results from the uniform excellence of its cast and the subtle, piercing eye of its camera, which catches lights and darks and poses like a latter-day Vermeer. As simple as corn pone and just as good, Heartland reveals America, the America of Whitman's poetry, the America of open spaces and open people...