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...himself, as this compassionate biography shows, Delmore Schwartz is the ruin on which others have built. "I think I've never met anyone who has somehow as much seeped into me," Lowell once said, delivering a tribute haunted enough even for Schwartz. - Melvin Maddocks
REVIEWERS are despicable characters. In one way or another they always manage to ruin movies, especially independent movies. Independent movies are difficult for the reviewer because, as a general rule, they don't have stars, their subjects are not always well-focused, and they can appear self-centered because they are often not intended to appeal to mass audiences, as Hollywood movies...
Black Star, by Tom Joslin, is one such independent film, and I'm going to tell you something about it which will ruin it for you. I'm not telling you this because I want to put the film down as an independent work, but because it's the main issue of the movie, and I can't avoid it. It's about a homosexual. That, in itself, should not ruin the film for you, but the fact that you could have watched this movie for half an hour and not known it was about a homosexual could make...
...Bedford, Mass. The local Boys Club, which owned it, lent it in the 1950s to the town's First National Bank, which put it in storage. That deeply upset Jacob Rubin, 82, a Russian-born furniture maker, who was worried that the painting was "going to wrack and ruin." On behalf of the Boys Club-of which he is a director and benefactor-Rubin tried to sell the portrait. He got no takers-even after he lowered his price to $100. So he and his wife Esther anted up what they thought it was worth-$500-and donated...
When the two-year drought first parched much of the country in 1976, farmers cried that unless Washington came to their rescue they faced financial ruin. Congress obliged by making the farmers eligible for easy-to-get, easy-to-repay loans under the Small Business Administration's disaster relief program. Now farmers in some areas are afflicted not by drought but by harvests so bountiful that prices have fallen. So back to the trough of federal aid they have come-in a stampede. They have made such a run on the SBA farm loans that administrators who once budgeted...