Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...
Perhaps White would have been better advised to tell his political tale as a novel, for his play has little of true theatrical quality. Beyond that, Caesar at the Rubicon is faultless: it has White's usual lucidity of language, and his analysis of Caesar's political dilemma is intelligent and plausible...
...force about the self-made woman. The heroine is a Turin gamine with enough brains and beauty to make good in the silky Roman world of couture. She knows her men well, and her willingness to share their beds implies no regard for their superiority. She is the novel's narrator, but the disguise is transparent: it is still Pavese speaking. His observations about women are cutting, as when a restless wife concludes: "Living is really putting up with someone else and going to bed with him, whether you feel like it or not." And it is still Pavese...
...about the disintegration of a family. And, typically, at the same time it is about the disintegration of a story about the disintegration of a family. Hence the title, Histoire, which means both history and story-an indication of the trompe 1'oeil that gives the novel its mystifying rhythm of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. Swimming through the pages with nothing stronger than a colon to slow them are fragments of memories, conversations, odors, tastes, tactile sensations and dim images from old postcards. Somewhere below, finning almost motionlessly, is the suicide of a cousin...
...blocked by a mired Boeing 707. A traffic controller is suicidally depressed. And a Rome-bound flight lifts off with a man carrying a bomb in his briefcase. How Airport Manager Mel Bakersfeld and a score of other characters cope provides the suspense of this obvious but well-programmed novel. Among the nuggets Hailey might better have left unreported is a chillingly explicit vignette on How to Build a Bomb with materials available in hardware stores for "less than five dollars...