Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown; $3.95), shows young Stevenson giving each of his friends birthday presents of their favorite candy-a mountain of red lollipops, a carload of gumdrops, "a very long string of delicious licorice...
...completely failing to realize any of the possibilities suggested by the various scenes, Shalako does propel the mind to tangential daydreaming. I got hung up on how amazingly little screen presence Connery has. A colleague emerged from the picture meditating that someone ought to make a decent picture about mountain-climbers. Another friend who shared this minor unpleasantness with us tried to figure out which part of the USA most resembled the locations in Spain where the film was shot. Yet another surmised, correctly I think, that the reason Shalako is an "outdoor" picture is that the producers didn...
...used to feign illness so he could stay home from school and listen to radio soap opera. Television does not have that kind of clutch on him. He doesn't even have a set in his Manhattan co-op apartment or his mountain lodge in Switzerland. There is one in his beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm Springs, but he says, "I never find anything on it." He is contemptuous of adventure programs ("Fictionalized crime...
Forecast). Fresh from a long sojourn at a Colorado mountain retreat last April, Hardin recorded this album at Manhattan's Town Hall. Most of the selections are from his previous albums (If I Were a Carpenter, Red Balloon, The Lady Came from Baltimore). What those albums do not contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain...
Unliterary Acquaintance. Even with symbolism and cold-war politics set aside, the book presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow smith that lends a slight feeling of familiarity to some of Cancer Ward's harrowing episodes. It is an unliterary acquaintance with those romans-fleuves of the air waves, TV's medical melodramas. Most Americans have seen it all already-the devoted old doctor who sees the symptoms...