Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Burgess begins simply enough, but we are rapidly sidetracked on a series of unconnected and nightmarish tangents. Beard, shaken by his wife Leonora's grisly and easily forestalled death, enters into an affair with Paola, a young, trendy Italian photographer who astonishingly remembers Beard's name after having seen it in movie credits. (The dust jacket informs us that Paola's photographs "adorn the book," quite a feat for a fictional character and no doubt a surprise to photographer David Robinson.) All is fine and dandy between the two, as uncovered in some badly written bedroom scenes, until Paola must...
...dictators, then forgot it all in order to write the novel. The Patriarch ages, contemptibly deaf and senile, gradually cut off from authority by bureaucrats who preserve him as a useful relic. He caricatures Franco propped up by his bodyguards in motorcades and at podiums, or the pathetic fake photograph of Mao swimming in the Yangtze River. His solitariness is the loneliness of power taken to its extreme and most human degree...
...imaginative Arp, who specializes in studying peculiar galaxies and has long been known for his unconventional ideas, is at a loss to explain such galactic pyrotechnics-though he admits that "it will certainly be fun to speculate." In any case, Arp has every reason to be pleased. The dramatic photograph provides new evidence for one of his favorite themes: that the universe is filled with strange, awesome events that totally defy orthodox explanation...
...gruesome photograph of the bodies of three Palestinian guerrillas [Oct. 11] and the general apathy in response to their summary trial and public hanging bring to mind what might have happened if this had been Israeli, not Syrian justice. Undoubtedly we would have heard cries of outrage from the Third World, accusations of barbarism from Moscow, criticism from Secretary-General Waldheim and perhaps even a muted protest from the Pope...
...cover photograph and color pictures that accompany our King Kong story were taken by John Bryson, former assistant picture editor of LIFE magazine, who was on the set for much of the last year. Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, is a movie historian as well as a critic. In fact, he has just completed a nine-month stint as coproducer and writer of Life Goes to the Movies, a three-hour TV retrospective of movies made between 1936 and 1972, which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says...