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...mother would make Mrs. Portnoy cringe, she is so solicitous. Sid Davis, as the uncle of the central character, Richard, should come across as a lovable man condemned by his own weakness from ever obtaining the woman he loves. George Ede makes him the back-slapping traveling salesman of a dozen stale farmer's daughter jokes...
...Atlanta, where a write-in campaign for Rico Carty is gaining such headway that Braves Manager Luman Harris predicts: "Rico will get more votes than anybody on the National League team." Carty is not counting on it. He has been snubbed more times than a door-to-door salesman. In 1964, his first season with the Braves, he hit 22 homers, knocked in 88 runs, batted .330 -and lost Rookie of the Year honors to the Phillies' Richie Allen, a .318 hitter. Last season, after a six-month bout with tuberculosis, he suffered through three shoulder separations and still...
...Jacket copy can be cretinous. The blurbs from other writers are often elliptical and overblown ("Not since Dostoevsky . . ."), demolishing what credibility they might normally possess. The authors' capsule biographies still tend to suggest that to become a novelist, a boy should first try life as a carpenter, cook, salesman and merchant seaman. Advertising budgets range from minuscule to nonexistent. Many publishers, in fact, will not advertise a first novel at all unless sales justify it on a percentage basis-a neat way to ensure there will be no sales to base percentages...
...Chekhov, the unhappy family recurs as a dominating theme. Similarly, it is almost a catalogue of the best American plays. Think of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This says something about the nature of drama, which thrives on intensity and stripped-to-the-soul confrontations-life at the boiling point. The family provides just that. It contains naked love, naked hate, naked domination and naked humiliation...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...