Word: nathanael
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...tale can be read, some of the time, as light summer fiction. It is studded with scenes of cheerfully skin-deep satire and divertingly chuckleheaded dialogue. But occasionally Feiffer's laughter comes close to a stifled cry of anguish-in a way that has not been matched since Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts took to heart the troubles reflected in his advice-to-the-lovelorn column, and was destroyed by acute compassion...
Director Joseph Strick, who showed a talent for visual satire in The Savage Eye, suffers a distinct falling off in this film. His next project, a film from Nathanael West's Day of the Locust, which has a more familiar setting and theme for him, will probably recoup his prestige...
...Yanks second best in something. Aluminium is not so much a Canadian company as a truly international one. Its founders came from Pittsburgh, its plants span 30 countries from Japan to Africa, and 85% of its sales are made in more than 100 foreign nations. Says President Nathanael Vining Davis, 47, a Harvard-educated ('38) U.S. citizen: "Canada can use only 15% of our output. We have to sell the rest of it to the world...
...convinced that he will be the sole human survivor of nuclear attack that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing finally happens to his characters; they are merely suspended before the reader for a moment in time, and they disappear into a future no more hopeful than their past. But for a few moments they stand illuminated...
...moral is, or so the author says, that "people know when you are trying to be something you are not." In his short stories, O'Hara can knock chips off the old Hollywood chopping block with his eyes shut. But in The Big Laugh he writes as if Nathanael West...