Word: reed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from there. The book is a junkyard for the left-over bits and pieces of American myths that couldn't quite be worked into The System; interesting how you often learn more about people from the stuff they throw away than from what they admit to keeping. Ishmael Reed has taken assorted scraps and shavings from American history, religion, and polities and made of them a tale that at first sounds like a child's nightmare of shadows and misconceptions. But by the time you finish, it's no longer so childish...
...high school sweetheart, and is presently wed to an inoffensive uncelebrity named Patrick Curtis. She does not flounce around studio sets in see-through blouses by day or boogaloo at the Factory by night. She does not smoke. She does not drink. She rarely entertains. Says Writer Rex Reed, who will make his screen debut as Myron Breckinridge, Myra's alter ego: "Raquel is a very complex girl. She is terribly, terribly interested in being taken seriously. She has elected to be a movie star, but underneath that creamy skin and those bulging blouses beats a Puritan heart...
...Burton-Lyon-Gardner gallimaufry of Night of the Iguana. There is crustaceous Veteran Director John Huston portraying Uncle Buck Loner, the sagebrush sybarite. Huston, an inveterate cigar smoker, has been unhappy with a no-smoking clause that Mae West had written into her contract. There is the epicene Rex Reed, who eats peaches, scribbles notes for his book (about the making of Myra, naturally) and regularly breaks up the crew with his lavender drawl. Towering over all is the ribald old empress, Mae West, who threatens to steal the show as Leticia Van Allen, the drunken, horny agent...
Quarterback Dave Smith called an extremely intelligent game last week, and the team seemed to gell efficiently under his leadership. With end Peter Varney and tackle Fritz Reed returning to the starting lineup, the Crimson will have the left side of its offensive line intact once again, and Smith can run the power sweep to either side without worrying about its reduced effectiveness...
...return of Varney, who injured a shoulder in the B.U. game, and Reed, who damaged several blood vessels in his neck. will help strengthen the left side of the offensive line, but three other starters will still be unable to play this weekend...