Word: mckuen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italy. It is difficult to imagine that Reich's lonely years and late-blooming sex life have not affected the way he looks at the world. This, however, is not a critical issue. Attempting a vision, Reich has only come up with a rosy view-as if Rod McKuen had turned Rousseau's Social Contract into a TV special...
...seized by a fit of automatic writing while staring at herself in a three-way mirror, she turns out a surreal prose poem called Lady Oracle that becomes a bestseller. Sudden celebrity as the author of Lady Oracle -which publishers promote as an irresistible blend of Rod McKuen and Kahlil Gibran-brings a blackmailer into Joan's life. Rather than face exposure of her multiple lives, Joan plans a fake accidental death by drowning. Thereafter, she hopes to resurface in a new life -one that will be "neat and simple, understated, even a little severe, like a Quaker church...
...appears each day in the personals of the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner. It reads: "Mac " McKuen. If you may know of the above (spelling may vary) who worked in the Bay Area in 1933 (then aged 27) as a salesman ... pls. call Neilson & Green, S.F. 665-4386. Neilson & Green, it turns out, is a detective agency working for Pop Poet Rod McKuen, who hired the sleuths last month to track down his long-lost father. The poet, whose mother died in 1971, was born an illegitimate child in a Salvation Army hospital in 1933. Father disappeared shortly before...
...specific, Harold--is very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...
...front the scoring punch should come off the sticks of strikers Susie McKuen and Abbie Homans. Wingers Mary Howard and Cha-nan Tang will be out on the sides looking for breakaway passes or to set up the strikers...