Word: reeds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smilowitz has lived in Cambridge for the past three years, having graduated from Reed College in 1968, and though he has no real "political" experience, he has been the leader of a food co-op for the last two years...
...favor of sexual intercourse, an Administration maneuver to blame the popular unrest on a defected baseball player, a military invasion of Denmark, the liberation of "Hamlet's Castle," the destruction of Copenhagen. Richard Nixon's assasination (he's found naked in a giant, water-filled baggy in Walter Reed Hospital where he's gone to have the sweat glands in his upper lip removed), and Nixon's subsequent attempts to reestablish a constituency in Hell. If it occasionally sounds strained, it is. Mr. Roth's fury would seem to have gotten the better...
...much of the bitterness her suicide read into it, and allows the poetry an inkling of self-love in all the self-hatred. It means that it is no longer possible not to read her anymore, especially her last and most fleshless skeletons, now that there is the slender reed of her self-love to sustain the reader. Her last poems. "Daddy," "Edge," and "Words," are her best. English publishers found them so unbearably confessional that for a long time these last poems found no outlet. She did not intend these to be swansongs, but new flexings, higher bets...
...free-wheeling styles of many of the pieces in the special poetry supplement of local poets don't quite make up for their generally skimpy substance. Louis Reed's rock-lyric, "Sweet Jane," begs for music, but it might not bear too many listenings. Elizabeth Fenton's "More Rain", on the other hand, is a list of the conditions of a strained relationship that builds an undertone of anguish by effectively calculated repetition and an ironic sense of restraint...
...Between is so similar to a (far superior) classic British film that I'm surprised few have made the comparison. Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol, written by Graham Greene from his short story "The Basement Room", also chronicled a young boy's encounter with passions beyond his ken, with class conflicts in the background. Reed's film was cinematically more extravagant than The Go-Between, and it unashamedly exploited the use of subjective interludes within its plot structure. But it was not a whit less edifying for that. Reed was simply unafraid of responding heartfully to a tale that...