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Whatever the specifics of Ford's anti-inflation program, he developed a distinctive approach in enlisting a broad range of citizens in the search for answers. The organizational setup for the war on inflation that Ford outlined in his address had a more-the-merrier look. The President established two new bodies to manage economic policy...
...wrong times. The chase is carnal and frantic, and the tone is leeringly Marxian (Groucho Dept.). Rachel Roberts is having her first affair, and John McMartin is the mad man in her life. As Bea Lillie once said, it's a case of"L'amour, the merrier...
Labels as diverse as fantasist, caricaturist, romantic and symbolist have been applied to Malamud, but he laughs at these terms and suggests: "tragico-comico, realistico-fabulistico; the more the merrier!" As for the themes often singled out in his stories--defeated love and failed ambition, imprisoned souls and claustrophobic lives, spiritual rebirth and redemptive suffering--he asserts that these are universal, and are there for anyone who wants to find them. "Not everything I put in consciously is noted, and people find things in my work I never knew were there. I try not to interpret my works to others...
Malamud laughs at the labels which contemporary critics have pinned on him. "Tragico-comico, realistico-fabulistico; the more the merrier...
...wanted to be with him. The second reason was I was afraid of Hider. There was a third reason-I didn't make a living in Warsaw." A smile spread across his face, and the crow's fect at the corners of his eyes became deeper and merrier. I knew he was about to tell a story...