Word: novelistically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Catching On. Roth is an enthusiastic mimic. "He takes all the parts in every story and really makes you see the people. He is the best storyteller I know," says Novelist Brian Moore. Lately he has become more wary. "I would call him a manic repressive," says Writer Albert Goldman, an old friend. "He knows he could be rocketed too high-the new hero who is all brains and sex. Actually, he is probably happiest working in monastic solitude." In recent years he has lived in Manhattan, a dashing, dark-featured bachelor with a beautiful blonde at his side...
...twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry," the director assured the poet when she began tugging on her calf-length skirt...
When a physician enters his office, his identity is immediately ratified by the tools of Hygeia that surround him. There are also the parchments on the wall to reassure him that "Dr." is part of his name. By contrast, a novelist may have a few of his books on the shelf (unlike the physician, the writer cannot bury his mistakes), but when he goes to work he is greeted by the gaping anonymity of blank paper. More than most working people, the professional writer of fiction must constantly create himself out of himself if he is to know...
...Mary and John? The ad announcing the new production says it in ideographs: Rosemary's baby carriage perched atop Mrs. Robinson's knee. Mia Farrow, 23, and Dustin Hoffman, 31. The wandering waif and the victim of the middle class. Mrs. Sinatra and Mr. Acne. Novelist Flannery O'Connor put it another way: "Everything that rises must converge." The casting together of the two fastest-rising performers in the business was inevitable?it always is. But it once took half a career to manage the box-office mergers of Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson or Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn...
...view of The Girls and its author is mild compared with the portrait of womankind sketched by Henry de Montherlant in these four novels published separately in Paris between 1936 and 1939 and now issued in America for the first time in a single volume. An accomplished playwright, novelist and gadfly, Montherlant at one time or another has irritated nearly everyone in France. Misogyny, though, is the specialité de la maison-like fetuccine Alfredo served with a silver spoon...