Word: namelessness
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...Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used to lubricate the gore machine. The Laughing Policeman is most barbarous of all: it primes viewers for two hours of pointless mayhem in the very first scene, when a nameless killer mows down eight strangers on a bus. (If the action slows at other points, Rosenberg tosses in a woman jumping to a splattered sidewalk death or a stoolie's face getting flushed in a urinal...
Isadora evolves the fantasy of the "zipless fuck" to deal with the problem. The zipless fuck is the platonic ideal in the newest sense of the word: you meet a strange male, your clothes fall off like flower petals, you come together in one soulbending mindbodyfuck, faceless, nameless, no ties, no commitments. It is to be a Last Tango, quick and compressed like a dream. (Erica Jong likes the bigger than life words, the exaggerated scene. Life for her people is one big high. If she doesn't dream big, she doesn't dream--when she dreams about getting laid...
...Twist to bed hungry? Would a few extra bowls of knowledge really bankrupt THE Corporation? Some people think education is priceless; by requiring people to pay money, others make education worthless. I am one, I speak for many. My name was not on the class list, therefore I am nameless...
...nameless narrator is Canadian, like herself, and a bit younger-in her late 20s. A commercial artist making a perfunctory living by illustrating children's books, she has left her husband and her own child. "A divorce," she observes with her dreadful gift for understatement, "is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less...
THURSDAY; Honor Thy Father (1973) A tailored-for-TV adaptation of Gay Talese's 1971 bestseller about life in a New York Italian social organization which shall remain nameless. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...