Word: sauls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAUL BELLOW 182 pages. Viking...
...pulled in the same direction" says the Yiddish proverb, "the whole world would topple over." Nowhere is that folk wisdom more apparent than on the acreage of Israel or in the first work of nonfiction by Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Saul Bellow. Late in 1975, when the author was a youthful 60 and the country was a ravaged 27, Bellow visited the Holy Land-his first trip since...
Long before the Swedish Academy chose him as the seventh* American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, Saul Bellow was in a fine position to judge-and make light of-official literary honors. He had won most of them already: honorary degrees, citations from governments and academies, three National Book Awards (a record), and, last May, a Pulitzer Prize for Humboldt 's Gift. At a brief press conference after the Nobel announcement, Bellow remarked characteristically, "I'm glad to get it. I could live without it." His fellow countrymen appeared more pleased. Not only had the Nobel...
...Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 19), a coarsely affectionate tribute to this battered queen of American cities, in spirit somewhere between Lenny Bruce and Rube Goldberg. Farther down the block at the Allan Frumkin Gallery (50 W. 57th St.), a group of artists, among them Ceramist Robert Arneson and Painter Peter Saul, are poking none-too-gentle fun at the patriotic excesses of the Bicentennial. The Brewster Gallery (1018 Madison Ave.) has a solid group of more than 50 Georges Braque etchings, aquatints and lithographs, and for fans of the Italian maestro Giorgio de Chirico, there is a large survey...
Michael, bored with his Streets of San Francisco TV series, got in touch with Fantasy Records Chairman Saul Zaentz, who had grown similarly restive in the music business. Zaentz pulled the financing together, and the two fledgling producers hired Czechoslovakian Director Milos Forman and persuaded Nicholson to play McMurphy. Nicholson was enthusiastic about the part, but, lest idealism crowd out commerce, the actor demanded a salary of $1 million and something like 10% of the profits. The casting of Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched, however, represented quite another kind of risk...