Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRANGER. Italian Director Luchino Visconti's film follows the action of Albert Camus' fine novel with hardly a comma missing-and therein lies both its strength and its weakness. The action of the book eventually moves into the mind, and Visconti does not find a cinematic way of translating the shift. Marcello Mastroianni plays the hero suffering from alienation and despair...
...began a novel fly-U.S.-airlines campaign. Full-page newspaper advertisements featured a sketch of a gold bar, under which the boldface copy read: "There are only two ways to keep it in the U.S.A. when you fly to Europe. TWA-or our friends at Pan Am." The smaller print appealed directly to businessmen who, no matter what the Government's travel restrictions turn out to be, must still go abroad to sell U.S. goods and services. "We'll help you," concluded the ad, "even if we have to send you to our friends up the street...
From that point, the novel jumps forward 18 years to Semple's recovery and his release from the state asylum. Shortly afterwards, he has a chance meeting with Hunt. In the inevitable, violent conclusion, Hunt dies a fitting voyeur's death by defenestration...
...records the radical shifts in their emotional climate, the changes can be felt like heat or sleet. Blade of Light is both more powerful and more controlled than Hard Rain Falling. A calculated, mood-ridden shocker, it is that relatively rare product in contemporary fiction: a strong second novel...
...first taste of hostility came when he wrote an unfavorable Commentary review of The Adventures of Angle March, the 1953 novel by Family Favorite Saul Bellow. According to Podhoretz, Bellow's friends were apparently persuaded that the review was part of a subtle plot to discredit him. Three years later, a well-known American poet (the reader is never told who) accosted the young critic at a party and drunkenly threatened: "We'll get you for that review if it takes ten years." The book is everywhere littered with the hairs of such neighborhood cat fights, most...