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VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods permitting. Acting as a combination waiter and pimp, Paco has for spiritual adviser the fat priest Don Teodulo Vena, a sensualist given to topsy-turvy metaphysics, who may be Pace's father. Don Vena explains that he is a habitué of the villa because his body, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Mar. 2, 1962 | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

Light in the Piazza (M-G-M), developed from a popular novella by Elizabeth Spencer, is an intelligent and charming "woman's picture" that tells the story of a rich American couple (Olivia de Havilland and Barry Sullivan) with an emotionally harrowing problem: they have a mentally defective daughter (Yvette Mimieux). Kicked by a pony in childhood, the girl has the mind of a ten-year-old girl in the body of a startlingly beautiful young woman. In fact, the girl's sensuous attractions are so spectacular that most young men thoughtlessly fail to notice her mental limitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: What Should Mother Do? | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts the two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The guru of The New Yorker abstracts two stories from his cycle-in-progress on the Glass family; the result is a masterly double novella, strongly flavored with both eccentricity and genius, of a girl's brush with religious obsession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Benjamin Britten was over tempted to build an opera, on Henry James's unattractive little post-Gothic and pre-Freudian shocker, The Turn of the Screw, I confess I cannot easily conceive: James's novella, I have always thought, could only be dramatized by someone experienced in the nuances of psychological muck--a writer of the Grand Guignol, say, or perhaps even Mr. Alfred Hitchcock...

Author: By Anthony Hiss., | Title: The Turn of the Screw | 7/13/1961 | See Source »

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