Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Irony is the first resort of the oporessed. Operating out of two languages, Gaelic and English, the lads found they could shoot up a smoke screen of Irish bulls and blarney that no colonial officer could penetrate. Forbidden to write patriotic songs, they wrote love poems to a girl that sounded suspiciously like Eire, hate poems couched as hymns and generally got things so snarled up that they even have to watch each other. (The best Irish talkers have eyes like terriers'.) Gulliver's Travels, the Anglo-Irish classic, is the high point of the two traditions...
Although it is advertised as a film about student unrest in Paris and Prague, A Matter of Days is hardly the thing to see for ideological inspiration. It is a quiet, sentimental little love story that happens to be set against a university background, a sort of La Chinoise for squares. When a French graduate student (Thalie Fruges) goes to bed with her professor boyfriend (Vit Olmer) for the first time, Director Yves Ciampi actually cuts to an exterior long shot of the light being turned out in the garret -a graceful, old-fashioned touch that is fairly typical...
...LOVE MACHINE by Jacqueline Susann. 51 1 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...author who is not waiting for such technological innovations is Jacqueline Susann, a former utility actress and semicelebrity who finally got her share of limelight and lettuce (more than $1,000,000) by writing a book called Valley of the Dolls. Miss Susann's latest excitement is The Love Machine. A preposterously engaging sex-and-power fantasy targeted mainly at middle-aged females, The Love Machine is already nudging Portnoy's Complaint off the top of the bestseller lists, and should gross at least $2,000,000. In it, Miss Susann once again demonstrates her remarkable instinct...
Valley was a pharmacological and gynecological nightmare. Reader interest, soaring along on a series of drug ingestions, couplings and nervous breakdowns, finally hit an apogee with breast cancer. Love Machine lacks Valley's primitive vigor but equals its obsession with pathology: leukemia, gall-bladder trouble, heart disease, neurasthenia and nymphomania play important roles. One man is terrified of losing his genitalia; another surrenders them gladly in order to become a woman. The central character, a power-mad television executive with a superhuman capacity for vodka and coitus, is mysteriously incapable of love and marriage. The explanation is only...