Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LONDON NOVELS OF COLIN MaclNNES (CITY OF SPADES, ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS, MR. LOVE AND JUSTICE). Icy observations and poetic perceptions of the back alleys and subcultures in that pungent city on the Thames...
...sincerity is varnished with artifice. The interracial love affair is as uncomfortable as some of the dialogue ("Do you enjoy being a tall, dark secret?"). The film's open-ended references to a mysterious Negro "organization" unfortunately recall the paranoic fantasies of Ian Fleming's Mr. Big in Live and Let Die. Ultimately, The Lost Alan is notable less for what it does than for what its star does not do. After Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, many black critics found Sidney Poitier in the fink of condition. Now, outfitted with shades and a scowl, tersely...
...Lillian Gish: The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me, Gish and Pinchot...
...bleak Gulf Coast industrial town that is also intensely religious. On Sundays, most of its 10,000 inhabitants troop loyally to one or another of the town's 35 churches; some have so much fundamentalist fear of the Lord that they respectfully refer to Jesus as "Mr. Christ." The shared excitement over the phenomenon has brought blacks and whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child, the Virgin Mary...
Vandenhaag: Mr. Tynan's idea is apparently that pornography can be good, depending, of course, on the quality of who creates it. Now as I think of art, it is not the experience itself, but a reflection upon experience. As Santayana put it, high art cancels lust. My view would be this: the better the writer, the less effective his writing as "pornography" as you defined it, however sexual his subject...