Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasional mild symptom-to the usually vicious barrage of Lenny Bruce. Where Elaine and Mike meditate on the problem of a stranded motorist who has lost his last dime, or a boss quietly trying to drink a secretary into submission. Newcomer Bruce, 33, likes to defend Leopold and Loeb: ''Bobby Franks was snotty...
...Harold Loeb. There were some real people behind most of the characters in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises-Lady Brett Ashley, Robert Cohn, his older mistress, etc. In a fascinating backward look, the author (who served as Cohn's model) tells who was really who and how they lived, talked and drank in those nights before the sun rose...
Compulsion. Leopold and Loeb's "crime of the century" re-created in a tight, suspenseful film...
...love and memory are enough; he has fashioned a timeless frieze of the titans and the lotus eaters of the '20s. It is perhaps typical of Loeb that a decade later he was a devotee of technocracy. His generation could never escape the Gatsby Syndrome, the belief in "the green light" ever beckoning toward an elusively perfect tomorrow...
Compulsion. A tight, suspenseful film about the heinous crime and the court trial of Leopold and Loeb...