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...mood of the return to romance. There is, for example, Margot Kidder, a Love Story hater ("Two marshmallow people marching around trying to be brave") and one of the great bodies of the Western world as well as the Tomato Surprise of Quackser Fortune. Or Carrie Snodgress, unforced, radiant star of the arch, dim Diary of a Mad Housewife. Perhaps the most technically skilled of the new romanticists, she insists...
...later that had we all left simultaneously, Frances might have associated our departure with her earlier tragedy, in which all of her support was withdrawn at once.) Frances rose slowly, lit a cigarette and turned to look at us. "Thank you all," she said, her face breaking into a radiant smile. "I feel much better...
...young. Her exuberances, her frenzies, her "highs" set off chain explosions in the audiences. The quart bottle of Southern Comfort that she held aloft onstage was at once a symbol of her load and a way of lightening it. As she emptied the bottle, she grew happier, more radiant, and more freaked out. The spread of the feet grew wider, the stomp more frantic. The flopping mop of hair did its best, but could not completely hide the tightening grimace of the face. As the mouth opened wide, the macadam voice, scarred by booze and cigarettes, grew louder and bolder...
...proved unworkable, he tried JellO, but found it had a tendency to decompose. Reverting to simplicity, he hit upon the idea of using masses filled with water. In his first experiments, he used only cold water, but found that he "woke up with my bottom feeling like ice." A radiant-heat unit solved that problem, and after Hall spent 18 months trying to interest manufacturers and dealers in his home area of San Francisco, King Koil Sleep Products decided to try the water...
...approbation injected a new note of self-confidence into his painting. His colors grew warmer and more radiant, his scale ever grander. He turned to sculpture; his most singular work, Broken Obelisk, today stands in Houston as a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. Intuitive, romantic, passionate, he unabashedly was. "But more than anything else," said Critic Lawrence Alloway last week, "he showed how to do the most with the least...