Word: nathaniel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions can be judged, a sort of moral vacuum results and the only principle held inviolable is profit. The population of the Rim has doubled since World War II, from 40 million to 80 million, primarily from an influx of what Sale terms "the discontented classes." Sale advances Nathaniel West's argument in The Day of the Locust: people go west out of frustration, because they are unhappy with their small town existence and hope that in the sunshine of Florida or California they will find the good life that has always eluded them. Such an outlook creates a society...
...Locust. A guady adaptation of Nathaniel West's fine, sparsely sketched novel. Somebody in the Village Voice pointed out that this movie should have looked like Chinatown and China-town should have looked like this. A mixup in cinematographer contracts, no doubt. Good performances by Karen Black and Burgess Meredith make it worth $1.25 at Harvard Square on Monday and Tuesday nights...
Humphrey Bogart (Little, Brown; $12.50) is Nathaniel Benchley's "attempt to bring life to what is rapidly becoming a legend. The literal-minded," warns the author, "will complain that the quotes in this book cannot be accurate, and this is probably true." The problem is not one of accuracy but of familiarity. Benchley's frail chronicle offers the standard stories of Hollywood's old rebel, who pursued independence the way Sam Spade sought the Maltese falcon. Defining the difference between himself and most everybody else, Bogart used to claim that the world was about two drinks behind...
...BEEN a bad year for the classics of twentieth century American literature. Following in the tradition of the shoddy treatment given Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, director John Schlesinger has successfully denuded Nathaniel West's The Day of the Locusts of most of its brilliance, leaving behind a heap of gaudy celluloid...
...Angel knows the characteristics of his horse as well as the others in the race. If he's behind a horse that he knows tends to drift outside down the stretch, he knows the inside is open to him." Cordero also possesses a fine sense of timing. Steward Nathaniel Hyland admires the way Cordero "paces horses to save their speed for the end." After riding one long shot to victory from far back last week, Cordero explained, "I knew even though I was five lengths back at the quarter pole that the horse was ready...