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Until recent years, no one could have imagined that rage would be peddled as theatrical entertainment. In its osmotic effect, this viciousness of attitude poisons whatever theme the playwright may have thought he had. The playgoer leaves the theater in a state of psychological dishevelment as he might a hospital room after visiting a patient who is running a dangerous fever...
...agreeable. In France, where Mary's fervor for the French Revolution was eventually chilled by the Terror, she fell in love with a flaky American adventurer named Gilbert Imlay; he left her with an illegitimate daughter. No biographer can be expected to re-create the desperate, ineffectual rage that sometimes leads people to attempt suicide. In this clear and measured biography, Critic Claire Tomalin, the new literary editor of the New Statesman, wisely allows the facts to smolder on their own. In October 1795 Mary Wollstonecraft jumped off Putney Bridge into the Thames; the bargemen who pulled...
...seemed to shudder when Remington began selling a handsome replica of a 1930 calendar issued by the Peters Cartridge Co., now a division of Remington, perhaps because of the current fascination with the entire decade of the '30s. For instance, art deco will again be all the rage in 1975, just as it was in 1930, and escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine-art painting of a hunter and mountain...
...supposed to be a black comedy, but the length and the detailing that Girod lavishes on this sequence dissolve that conceit more quickly than the acid turns the victims into glop. Since Girod's view of the proceedings is both slavishly realistic and entirely amoral, irony, satire and rage - the comic artist's basic tools - are not at his disposal. But the film is actually unworthy of even that much critical comment. It should not be reviewed but posted - like a poisoned water hole...
...Lower East Side of Manhattan. At 13, he hoped to be a professional singer. Instead, he followed the lead of older ghetto kids and got into drugs; by 17 he was stealing in earnest. Now 25, Jones is a bright street hustler who stutters in frustrated rage at his tantalizing inability to outdistance self-defeat. He managed to kick heroin during his only prison term and has stayed off it since he got out three years ago. But he takes in coke, pot and wine as naturally as most people breathe. He is also a clothes junkie, and whenever...