Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work of Steven Marcus provides a refereshing contrast to the general sterility of the discipline. Marcus, a student of Trilling's and an editor of "Partisan Review" takes as his field of inquiry what he calls "the imagination of society," the ways in which writers represent the social world in language and at the same time become the self-consciousness of their society. For the most part, the social imagination with which Marcus is concerned is that of Victorian Britain, conceived as a crucial period in Western culture's response to the coming of industrial capitalism. So broad an undertaking...
...Political Probation. The Premier has been subjected to unfair personal attacks. Israeli commentators have repeated his opponents' charges that Rabin drinks too much and makes backbiting remarks about even close colleagues. Wrote Ha'aretz Columnist Yoel Marcus recently: "Instead of inspiring, he is weak. Instead of uniting ranks, he divides." Gloomed the Jerusalem daily Yediot Aharonot: "A government crisis is looming because the Prime Minister's status has deteriorated...
...American movies, have now vanished. A cloddish script slams at us single-entendre jokes about sex. Doltish direction hammers them home with the sweaty desperation of a bad nightclub comic whose act is dying. The stars were discovered on television. James Brolin, who plays the young doctor on Marcus Welby, gives a congealed imitation of Gable, not an interpretation. Jill Clayburgh, who was spotted on Hustling, a made-for-television movie, is driven into a frenzied impersonation not of Lom bard but of at least six actresses in search of an author...
...closet." DeFreeze said she was a "prisoner of war" in the revolutionary struggle of the S.L.A. with American society and that she would be safe as long as nothing happened to two members, Joseph Remiro and Russell Little, who had been jailed on charges of murdering Marcus Foster, Oakland's superintendent of schools. "If I tried to escape, I'd be killed," Patty said DeFreeze warned her. "If I made any noise, that I'd be beaten or else they'd hang me up from the ceiling. He said that they had cyanide bullets...
...Mary as a soap satire; it is a way "to show humanity and comedy true to life in society-but perceived through a bent glass." He spends more time on the show than on any other project. In fact Lear may even be Mary. Says Chief Scriptwriter Ann Marcus: "If Mary sees an article in a magazine, that usually means Norman saw the article in a magazine." But despite suggestions from Lear and virtually everyone else on the set, Marcus finds the pace leaves hardly any "time to work out where the story is going." The original 60-page "bible...