Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most felicitous efforts since Society's Child. Her young, flutelike voice adds just the right hue of blues to the suicidal notes of Insanity Comes Quietly to the Structured Mind, and for a change she breaks up in giggles while satirizing country music in And 1 Did Ma...
Visitor from Hollywood is a case of seductio ad absurdum. It rests on the somewhat shaky premise that a Hollywood producer would set up an afternoon rendezvous with a suburban ma tron he once dated-17 years before-in order to kill an hour in bed. There is more lacquer than lecher in Scott's peacock-of-the-walk performance, but Stapleton is properly kittenish as she downs vodka stingers until she can only feel the bites on her neck...
...admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover. Though he writes in the third person, no modesty is involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem ma imposed by the Viet Nam war on many American liberals: self-exiled from Lyndon Johnson's Democratic Party, they are forced to array their antiwar consciences in the same ranks as Communists, New Leftists and giddy, neo-anarchic hippies...
...Your ma tells me you ain't here no more...
...Woody Allen produced a wicked parody called Bonnie's Clyde- with Allen as "Warren Beauty" and Liza Minnelli as "Faye O'Laye." Best boff: after Bonnie recites her ode to the Barrow Gang exploits, Clyde's brother Buck says, "I'm only a dumb hillbilly, ma'am, and I don't hold much truck with poetry, but you know what you've done?" Bonnie: "What's that, Buck Barrow?" Buck: "You've managed to combine the intellectual disillusionment of Eliot with the ambiguous symbolism of Baudelaire and still come up with...