Word: marquands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hilarious. After all, BEHAVIOR means specializing in everything." Since then, she has covered many subjects, including man's animal nature, black antiSemitism, infant intelligence, achievement processes in business, homosexuality, autistic children and the influence of dreams on learning. In 1949, the late author John P. Marquand remarked that being interviewed by Ruth Galvin was better than being psychoanalyzed. This time Dr. Masters merely said, "You sure ask a lot of questions...
...country's foremost publishing houses; of a heart attack; in Boston. Thornhill liked to regard himself as simply a salesman, but he was much more. His good taste, enthusiasm for literature and unfailing respect for his writers attracted many eminent authors, including Samuel Eliot Morison, John P. Marquand, Katherine Anne Porter, Ogden Nash, J. D. Salinger and Peter De Vries. In 1962, after almost 50 years with the company, Thornhill turned the presidency over to his son, Arthur H. Jr., but retained the chairmanship, in which he remained active until his death...
Equally clumsy is the film's direction, the work of Christian Marquand. Every sequence is overlong and overdone. The editing is helter-skelter, with some scenes totally incomprehensible. The color is shoddy and dank; the musical score is too loud and irrelevant. Worst of all, it is highly questionable that Marquand even bothered to direct any of his cast...
Having failed at titillation, the movie tries an onslaught of vulgarity. As if he had personally discovered the phallic symbol, Director Christian Marquand presents a parade of hydrants, fingers, pointers and thermometers. Then-he backs Candy up against a urinal, down on a toilet seat and up above a blood-soaked operating amphitheater. Yet with all his excesses, Marquand is a figure of refinement compared with Scenarist Buck Henry (The Graduate), whose idea of humor is an aside to the heroine: "Why don't you put a meter on it and we'll all get rich...
Quite a few of these American males are suffering from what Sociologist Leon Bramson calls the "Charley Gray syndrome," after the hero of John Marquand's novel Point of No Return. Having finally won his bank vice-presidency, Gray finds it meaningless-and far worse, he has no alternatives. As Sociologist Bramson sees it: "We have made it virtually impossible for people to try different kinds of careers in middle life without extraordinary risks." With depressing finality, Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald declared: "There are no second acts in American lives...