Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BarefootContessa (Figaro-United Artists) starts off as a series of expert thrusts through the tinsel of the perennial Hollywood rags-to-stardom saga. But Writer-Director-Producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who has successfully charred his bread and butter before (All About Eve). this time reaches so hard for significance that he loosens his grip on the ironic Hollywood spoof he almost has in hand...
...TIME FOR SERGEANTS, by Mac Hymen (214 pp.; Random House; $2.95), is the comic saga of how the U.S. Air Force grabs a Georgia cracker and learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection...
Terror on Broadway by David Alexander (Random House; $2.75) is written in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to English but is actually Broadwayese. In Novelist Alexander's hands, it is a blunt instrument that he uses to hammer out the unhappy saga of Waldo. Waldo is a psychopathic killer who gets a boyish kick out of playing ticktacktoe with a knife on the bodies of the ladies he dispatches. It is perfectly clear at the very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted...
Sirs: Further note on the "Earthquake McGoon" saga: One evening in Cholon, Indo-China, I was being introduced by Earthquake to his favorite Szechwanese food. With his Chinese plane crew about him ... he told us about his capture by Chinese Communists in West China after his plane was downed. His captors were putting him through a long forced march to their head quarters. In the course of time Earthquake, much better at flying than walking, became so tired that he sat down on the ground, and all efforts to get him to resume the trek were of no avail. Threatened...
...horrible object to the bottom of the garden, dug a large hole, buried it, and then returned to wash his hands carefully and dust his knees with a handkerchief scented with a few drops of eau de Cologne." The same method may be detected, of course, in The Forsyte Saga...