Word: octopus
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...tart effervescence" of Mary McCarthy, accurately noting that the cool, almost brutal realism of her sexual passages is light-years away from the passion-tinged descriptions of male writers. One notorious McCarthy story, she writes, "is about contraception in the way, for instance, that Frank Norris's The Octopus is about wheat. There is an air of imparting information-like whaling in Melville." Reviewing Simone de Beauvoir's prolix attack on male imperialism. The Second Sex, Hardwick pricks its Utopian pretension that women are stronger and better than men in a commonsensical line: "Any woman who has ever...
...bossed by tough, taciturn Lew Wasserman, 49, blankets competition by packaging its own talent into its own shows, grabs off 25% of prime TV time by presenting the networks with an all-or-nothing proposition. And what better title than Hollywood's own name for MCA, The Octopus...
...civil suit in Los Angeles federal court last week, the U.S. charged that the "predatory" activities of The Octopus violated the Celler-Kefauver anti-merger act. The charges noted that MCA recently acquired Decca Records, and, through Decca, control of Universal Pictures Co., Inc. MCA already owns Universal's lot. leases part of it back to the movie company for $1,000,000 a year. Now, by taking over Universal itself, MCA might well be in a position to dominate the movies as it already dominates the canned-TV business...
...perplexed and bothered by the swingingest development in recent Western history-the fabulous growth of the Common Market. The same day as the Goodman session, in a 40-minute tirade that was really an involuntary tribute to the market's success, Khrushchev denounced the Six as an imperialist octopus. The Common Market, he declared piously, could not, of course, threaten the mighty Communist bloc, but it was designed to keep the emerging states in Africa and Asia in subservience as Europe's "agrarian appendages...
...swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing to himself...