Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cruel soil for talent," he writes. "It stunts it, blights it, uproots it, or overheats it with cheap fertilizer." In this book, Author Mailer (The Naked and the Dead) sets aside the arduous business of novel writing and takes up horticulture. His first book in four years is a rock garden of schoolboy short stories, failed poems, fragments of plays, snippings from old novels and lumps from a new one-a mammoth work which Mailer says will probably take ten years to write and may be unprintable. Judging from the excerpts offered, its title should be The Nude...
...protect from unnundation large sites such as Philae, and Abu Simble, which cannot be removed. The former, Brew said, is "about the size of the Harvard Yard," while the latter is distinguished by 75-foot carved statues of Ramses II guarding the entrance to a series of rock-hewn temple chambers...
...Rock is almost completely de pendent upon a lunar condition known as the "honey moon," and its assent is along a precalculated bridal path...
There are compensations. The picture has been flashily produced in a slather of Eastman Color that often looks like violet shaving cream. It has been smartly directed by Michael (Cyrano de Bergerac) Gordon. And it presents, in the part of Rock's jealous rival, one of the funniest young men in movies today: a sort of Ivy League Dracula named Tony Randall...
...Rock is a songwriting satyr who as somebody remarks, does less scoring on paper than he does in his apartment. He shares a party line with Doris, an overdecorated interior decorator who soon finds herself in something of a sizzle. Rock has so many girls on the string that she can hardly get a call on the line. She complains to the phone company. Rock suavely assures the investigator, a young woman, that "I've never had any complaints before," and proceeds to demonstrate the reason why-to her obvious satisfaction. He then rings up the decorator and accuses...