Word: reals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five innkeeping Dunfeys (three other brothers set off on their own, and four sisters all became nuns) first set up business in the resort town of Hampton Beach. Beginning with a single hot-dog stand, the boys wheeled and dealt themselves in and out of restaurants, real estate and a bank before taking over the Lamie Tavern and a hotel-keeping career. Since then, their projects, all overseen by Ma Dunfey, have ranged from acquisition of the 800-room Eastland Hotel in Portland, Me., New England's third biggest hotel, to a $3,850,000 franchised Howard Johnson Motor...
Occasionally, there is some real fun in Fun City-notably a caricature by John McMartin of a Lindsay-like mayor who listens to bad news while a perpetual smile congeals on his face like a soft-boiled egg. But such high moments are rare, and most of the time the answer to that long questioning title is the movie itself...
...triumphant character, with true grit and sand, an original piece of Americana-sort of a Portrait of Whistler's Mother as a Young Girl in Indian Territory. And he has most vividly produced a true mock western: one in which blood flows with the same impact as real tomato soup suddenly gushing out of an Andy Warhol...
...science fiction, represented by three stories in this collection. But even here, as in the memorable title piece of his previous book of stories, Among the Dangs (1961), he insists on the moral. The sci-fi gimmicks of his fantasy worlds point metaphorically back to the truths of the real world. Into the Cone of Cold is typical: a poet allows himself to be frozen and thawed out again in a scientific experiment; beyond the spooky suspense of the situation, the cone of cold comes to stand for a state of spiritual exile from which the poet must grope back...
...point, of justifying the rounded resolutions that he pats into place at the end. In the long, superb title story, a woman's grief at her husband's death seems at first as stiff and arid as their marriage was. Then she finds that her real grief consists of a series of discoveries about herself, notably the fact that she harbors a lesbian passion. Finally she draws back from contemplation of "last things"-death, ultimate commitments-and finds a practical way to go on living with neither illusions nor great hope...