Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love of gold we routed the Indian from his homeland and livelihood, and now we sink the dam at Tellico to save the snail darter. O temporal O mores...
...funny to have Victor Laszlo require his wife's old lover to help him get not letters of transit so he can escape the Nazis but a liquor license so he can open a French restaurant in Oakland. But when the song that reminds Rick of his lost love (As Time Goes By in the original) turns out to be Jeepers, Creepers, one can't help thinking that Simon has too readily granted himself letters of transit to cross the frontier that separates wit from juvenile haw-hawing...
...ACTS OF LOVE by Elia Kazan Knopf; 436-pages...
...seat, pulled up her baby-blue skirt and offered two perfect pink buns. In the dark, they glowed like night flowers." Such high school imagery, unavailable in bookstores everywhere since Elia Kazan's last work, The Understudy, is now on display in his latest novel, Acts of Love. The sex is by the numbers, the philosophy has not yet graduated to the sophomoric, the characters are displayed in all their two dimensions, and the narrative is in overdrive...
...acts of love are performed by Ethel Laffey, a half-repressed voluptuary who spends a good deal of time in the percales, principally with Greeks, among them vulgarian Businessman Petros Kalkanis and Naval Officer Teddy Avaliotis, whom she marries. Among other Sunday adventures, she is assaulted by her husband's mad father Costa. Kazan, a director of note (A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata, America America) tends to write scenarios rather than novels. That might be acceptable except for the fact that his dramatis personae seem to be created for the viewer rather than the reader. Still, the novelist...