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...fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon...
...youth) left us beautiful verse because through the magic of poetry, all statements become the truth, provided they are backed by the power of real experience. And the poet certainly experiences deeply, so deeply their emotions smoulder and blaze. The smoke of their firely feelings spread like a rainbow over the sky, a beautiful rainbow spanning prison walls...
...city people how to raise organically grown vegetables. Another project involves construction of solar-powered hot-water heaters on apartment roofs. A third seeks to increase food supplies by teaching people to raise fish at home. "It's protein," says Hess, pointing to a tank full of tiny rainbow trout. "You can trade them or sell them...
...protagonist of Jones's play, on the other hand, eludes categorization to successfully that he baffles us. We are never quite sure whether to be charmed by him. Brad "Rainbow" Robert is a warm, yet spoiled and defeated, 25-year-old. A supporter high school basketball player, he has seen his dreams of making the pros destroyed by a racist college coach, and he now sweats it out daily, working in a plant with yet another coach-his white foreman. He sees little change of this rut. Clinging tenaciously dreams of glory days gone by, and glory days that should...
...NOTES brought Exley critical acclaim and a few literary awards, but not the fabled pot at the end of the rainbow. A bit miffed and fifteen thousand dollars in debt. Exley began another book, hoping to cash in on his newly acquired reputation...