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...Should I write an introduction to his anthology? Should I go on this talk show?), caustic remarks about the New York literary mafia and London literary critics, vague and useless pronouncements on poetry ("In poetry I want a kind of deep clarity"), and quotations from other writers which only remind us that we could spend our time more profitably reading something else. The worst part of it is the musings over the technical difficulties of his novel in progress which are presented in such a fragmentary manner that we never know what he is getting at. Besides, who, even...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The American Hype Machine | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

...than ten minutes? (She's certainly very enticing-and after the first five minutes it would be hard to misunderstand her intentions.) Or is it because he's the first one who's ever been more eager than she was when it came to the crunch? Or does he remind her of her father? This seems far-fetched when we meet the old lunatic in the hospital. He was once a doctor, Rigg relates, but if this is a plausible connection more must be made of it. Having tentatively raised such speculations, the film ignores them...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Doctor Scott | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

SOMEHOW THOUGH, it is as if Tynan and Polanski are ashamed of their conventionalism, and almost periodically there is an effort to remind us that what we are watching is, as promised, something strange and new. So the Thane of Cawdor's hanging is presented in full view, and Lady Macbeth sleepwalks in the nude. And where Shakespeare chose to let Macbeth die discreetly off stage, Polanski decapitates him in the middle of the wide screen and follows the head, rolling down steps...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: Polanski's Macbeth | 2/26/1972 | See Source »

...point in Redux, Rabbit looks over the books that Skeeter, the black radical carries--Marx, Fanon --and they disgust him, remind him of plumbing. Is that more or less your feeling also...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Updike Redux | 2/2/1972 | See Source »

...begin in the Oval Office, a room, the President observes, that "has a mystical effect on people. When visitors come in I have to remind myself that I have to draw them out. I've seen important men, the biggest men in the country, walk into this room and become tongue-tied. It has to do with the majesty and power of the presidency. I don't use this office to make decisions. When I get here, the decision has been made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Private World of Richard Nixon | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

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