Word: pluperfection
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...works of William Burroughs (Naked Lunch, Nova Express) have been taken seriously, even solemnly, by some literary types, including Mary McCarthy and Norman Mailer. Actually, Burroughs' work adds up to the world's pluperfect put-on. The publisher's blurb on the dust jacket attempts to legitimize his latest effusion thus: "Through winds of time, in strange beds, past silent obsidian temples, William Burroughs once again shuttles us back and forth between lunar worlds and the wired electric maze of the city. He presents us with a universe threatened with complete control of communications by the Nova...
...still enough old-rich, old-faithful families who return year after year to keep Europe's deluxe palaces filled nearly to capacity. For $30 and up for a double room, they get majestic grounds and baronial interiors that evoke the glories of la belle epoque, as well as pluperfect service from staffers who frequently outnumber guests, have seemingly been around forever, and never forget a visitor's face or the name that goes with it. Among the continental standouts...
...realistic and surreal, on a mythic yet natural plane, and most unconventionally conventional. While defying the norms of family and society, this domestic drama by British Playwright Harold Pinter is an exercise in instinctual logic. Vivien Merchant and Paul Rogers lead a perfect cast in Peter Hall's pluperfect production...
...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic anti-hero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect...
...Henry Livings. This English import is a gorgeous farce with a stubbornly heroic antihero whom no machine, man or woman can tame. In a perfect cast, Dustin Hoffman is pluperfect. THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN first opened in 1925 and is the only play that George S. Kaufman ever wrote without a collaborator. This show-biz saga sags a bit now, and the lines are scarcely howlers, but period costumes and an able, loving cast endow it with innocent nostalgia...