Word: pens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Registration this Fall is on September 28. Bring a pen...
This surreal version of a nursery rhyme is from the pen of Geneviève Deschranes, an imbecile French housewife with an abnormally small vagina. Regularly, Geneviève sends twenty-page love letters-disguised as chapters of a novel -to Philippe Perrigny, a second-rate French journalist who believes that lurking somewhere in the depths of perfidious Albion's Mother Goose is a symbolic answer to the riddle of the universe. Philippe in turn is married, as unsatisfactorily as possible, to Shirley Norrington Higgins Perrigny, an odd Canadian girl, and the heroine of this peculiar yet delightful novel...
...also the problem of Mailer's vanity. Near the end of the campaign says Flaherty, Mailer encouraged some of his staff to shave off their beards as a gesture of loyalty, and curtly rejected scripts for spot radio announcements in favor of an abominable jingle from his own pen...
...exactly 67? cash (in the playwright's pocket) and $1,200 in unpaid hotel bills. Suddenly a dragon of a hotel inspector is breathing fire down everyone's neck. Fortuitously, a backer appears. At one of many crucial and hilarious moments, Miller, with no ink in his pen, frantically tries to pierce his wrist and draw blood so that the angel can sign the contract. From then on, Miller merely sweats blood through one farcical contretemps after another until his production finally becomes a smash...
...philosophy or knowledge but a cohesive narrative skill. The phenomenal success of What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947) rested on fast-skipping story and stark, substantial characterization. In the end, Moreno's subtle, introspective world seems too delicate for Schulberg's stumpy pen...