Word: novella
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...style is frequently called the Gatsby look, a catch phrase that doubtless will get a boost with the remake this year of a movie based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novella. French magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central...
SUNDAY: The Red Pony. Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star in a mangled version of the John Steinbeck novella. CH. 4. 8:30 p.m. Color...
Goodbye, Columbus. This metropolitan New York "Graduate" was probably Radcliffe's biggest recruiter before "Love Story." Ali McGraw plays the ultimate bitch-goddess to Richard Benjamin's witty but unambitious librarian in the 1969 adaptation of the Philip Roth novella. First time on TV. CH. 5, 9 p.m. Color...
...movie is at its best here, sweet and shrewd and funny), they settle down into suburbia. They have a boy named Robbie, bright and happy, who contracts a mysterious disease and dies before reaching adolescence. The marriage founders, breaks and is mended again. Based on the Peter DeVries novella Witch's Milk, Pete 'n' Tillie is a mixture of puns, wisecracks and tragedy. All this might have worked but in stead is disconcerting because the movie takes only certain very tentative risks...
...NOVEL proceeds into confusion along with Dawes, who can find no firm identity and becomes schizophrenic. But, the confusion of the third part is controlled, even if Dawes is not. The result definitely justifies the reading. Besides chronological disarray, a new element is introduced, chapters from Dawes's own novella in progress...