Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dinner parties. His wispy, graying locks go uncombed, his custom-made Savile Row suits look as if they had been bought at a manufacturer's fire sale-they do not disguise his paunch. He is variously described by associates and acquaintances as autocratic, devious, dishonest, rapacious, egotistical, power mad, paranoid, a bully and a boor. Almost in the same breath, the same people call Felker a genius. "He's always been tough, restless and driven," says George A. Hirsch, now publisher of New Times, who quit as publisher of New York after four years of corporate karate with...
...sequence the sounds of all the letters in the alphabet: "Hay, be seedy! He-effigy, hate-shy jaky yellow man, oh peek, you are rusty, you've edible, you ex-wise he!" To fashion such creations, the OuLiPoians must be, as Martin Gardner characterizes them, "whimsical and slightly mad, as well as brilliant and too little known." But in art as in science, experiment leads to discovery and to higher forms of expression and invention. Poet Wallace Stevens once observed, "In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature." OuLiPo is a tour...
...will recall that the last we saw of Inspector Clouseau he had succeeded in 1) solving the jewel theft that was the central issue in The Return of the Pink Panther and 2) driving his immediate superior, Chief Inspector Dreyfus, completely, totally, padded-cell mad...
This case of mistaken identity started two years ago when Vidal was approached with the idea for the film by Producer Franco Rossellini. Vidal agreed to write a screenplay, and he introduced Rossellini to Guccione, who, with a logic Descartes would have envied, realized that where there are mad Roman Emperors there must also be orgies-along with big grosses at the box office and an endless supply of nude picture spreads for Penthouse...
...Brass will probably continue trading blows with Vidal until the film is released next fall. "Gore's single greatest regret in life is that he wasn't born a woman," says Guccione. "As a result, he becomes bitchy and petulant." Adds Brass: "If I ever really get mad at Gore Vidal, I'll publish his script...