Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Switching to catfish makes sound financial sense. The fish require less care than crops and bring their growers a fatter price per pound (400 to 500 live weight) than beef, pork or poultry. One of the first to discover the market was Edgar Farmer, 57, who stocked a pond ten years ago with a dozen "channel cats" that he had caught with a bamboo pole in the Arkansas River. Last year Farmer reaped $55,000 from 500 acres of catfish ponds. They are far more profitable than the 1,300 acres he devotes to rice, soybeans and subsidized cotton. Like...
...circles. Judge Mannix, who had seemed to be the novel's main character, drops from the author's primary notice. He is not really replaced; instead, his crippled family is endlessly viewed and reviewed by its remaining members and a succession of friends. This inward turning is less absorbing than Novelist Calisher believes it to be. She listens with a tirelessly sensitive third ear for the psychological reverberations of the shooting, but there is little out of the ordinary to hear...
MOVIE HISTORIANS call Erich von Stroheim a realist because of his attention to authentic detail. Stroheim rehearsed actors only less thoroughly than he designed sets and selected objects for them. But the most important element of his art is visual style, for its give us a sense that the objects and spaces he shows are real. Without this sense, all the correct detail in the world would be useless...
WHICH BRINGS us to the Awards--thankfully lacking the moral righteousness of last year's, and making up for a general dearth of humor by being more-or-less accurate for a change. Our tuxedoed crusaders have played it safe by avoiding controversial art (Faces) or excellent but vulnerable Americana (Skidoo, The Legend of Lylah Clare), and have instead gone after sacred cows--The Lion In Winter, rosemary's Boby, Star!, Barbarella-- truly wretched films in need of a little deflating. For this we thank them, although somehow the point of a Movie Worsts issue tends to get lost when...
...great tradition and will prove increasingly relevant in future years as youth continues to foist the fruit of its Bolexes and Bell-and-Howells on an affluent and unsuspecting public. Hunter, an irritatingly egocentric critic and an excessive film-maker, can nonetheless sleep secure in the knowledge that even less able juveniles are pointing their cameras through forbidden windows. The Lampoon, if it ever decides to get it together at some future date, would do well to keep track of them...