Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That myth was nurtured in postwar fiction like Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and John Marquand's Point of No Return: it was caricatured by such writers as Max Shulman (Rally Round the Flag, Boys!) and Peter De Vries (The Mackerel Plaza), elaborated more darkly in John Cheever's Bullet Park. The stereotype was neither wholly wrong nor wholly accurate. But those who have taken the trouble to look carefully have recognized that suburbia has been steadily changing. Today the demographic realities are radically different from the cliché, a change that...
...Max Beerbohm once concocted a curtain line for which there was no play: "I'm leaving for the Thirty Years' War!" Poor Max. He did not live to see his conceit turned to good use. His line could -and should-be attached to The Last Valley like a tin can tied to a jalopy...
...Louis v. Max Baer...
...Louis v. Max Schmeling...
...direction of The Homecoming is exceptionally good. David Keyser has gotten his actors into character, their accents polished and their presence refined. He has a solid idea of how The Homecoming should be played, communicating Pinter's basic idea summed up in Max's advice to his third son, the would-be boxer: "What you've got to do is defend yourself, then you've got to learn how to attack ... once you've learned those two things, you can go straight...