Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wealthy women are making 'closet liberation a cause that has almost universal support from husbands. While his wife Grace was off for two weeks on their yacht Gracara, Novelist Harold Robbins (Spellbinder) hired an engineer friend to design an automated clothes conveyor that could display her wardrobe at the touch of a button. "Before I installed this carrousel, we couldn't even find the dogs," cracks Robbins. "None of our cooks would stay. My wife's clothes filled up all their closets too." Though the new arrangement accommodates 700 garments, it holds only evening dresses, resort wear...
Bessie Smith sang for those cameras, and Josephine Baker danced for them. Dizzy Gillespie bopped there, and the novelist Richard Wright played his own creation, Bigger Thomas, in the film version of Native Son. Taken together, this body of film is a priceless record of the styles and manners, aspirations and attitudes of black America between 1920 and 1950, when these little pictures (they usually cost about $20,000) made their way along the circuit of more than 600 theaters, segregated either formally or de facto, that served the black community...
...avant-garde Argentine writer (best-known novel: Hopscotch) and political activist, who supported the Cuban and Nicaraguan revolutions; of a heart attack; in Paris. Cortázar's subtle humor and sinister sense of fantasy, combined with the themes of identity and reincarnation, moved a fellow novelist to hail him as "one of the greatest creators of Latin American literature...
...MOST SUBTLE STORY TELLERS barely hint at underlying conflicts; instead they use them throughout their stories as sources of vitality. Chilean novelist Joe Donoso has taken the art of raising questions one step further. In his third novel, A House in the Country,which has recently appeared in English translation, he brings up complex issues even outside of those involved in the actual story...
Critics, in a sniveling attempt to place Donoso in a genre, have often compared him to Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquees. Their similarities--in subject matter and setting, for example--stem only from the aspects of Spanish colonial heritage common to Chile and Colombia The mixing of several cultures gives these writer a wider range of plausible stories, as well as a greater sense of freedom to experiment with the unlikely. But unlike Marquez, Donoso derives much of his energy from the extreme self-consciousness of his art Each time Donoso turns from one event to another, he explains that...