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...knew as well as they did what good PR people could do with TV--I had seen TV lend piety to Richard Nixon and purity to Marilyn Chambers (the 99 and 44/100 pure Ivory Snow Girl who wound up Behind the Green Door). I have a feeling that the whole thing derived from that fateful eighth grade day of reckoning when my friends found out that all their favorite Westerns, the ones they had patterned their lives after, had been made--far from west Texas where they belonged--but in Spain...
...stretches--more movement in his eye sockets alone than in most Saturday morning cartoons--sidles into a one-woman art exhibit. He leans, peers, rocks back, shakes his head: almost every interaction with the objects is exhilirating. Street Musique, (1973), a Canadian film, is an exercise in almost pure animation and the best example of "minimal animation." The shapes expand, evolve, regress, and stay every bit as lovely as anything Miro did with line and color...
...Well, Joe," the man behind us growled, "you're pure nuts." The fellow behind us was right, because last Saturday afternoon did belong to a pitcher--but not Gullett. It was Luis (Looee) Tiant...
Fenway Park was already full half an hour before game time last Saturday. Someone behind where Ron and I were sitting had a transistor radio on with Joe Garagiola babbling about the Reds' starting pitcher, Don Gullett. "I think you'd have to call Gullett a pure pitcher," Garagiola said. "And with his ability to bat, you'd have to call him a pure hitter, too. For that matter, Gullett's just a pure athlete...
...eruptions from their TV sets. The form of the book constantly threatens to become the very chaos it is criticizing. But it holds. If JR were simply a literal send-up of Horatio Alger stories, Gaddis' ironies would be heavy and obvious. But his conception is pure and highly original. The dung-beetle logic of the young JR, the rationalizations of the go-getters and the stifled rage of the gotten echo long after the last line of this profoundly indignant novel...