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...celebrated feud with Lillian Hellman, the playwright and author. "The fact is that I think people have become increasingly concerned with the factual basis of Miss Hellman's recreation of history," she says. The dispute is a long-standing one, dating back to the publication of Miss Hellman's Scoundrel Time, which singles out Lionel and Diana Trilling as too sympathetic with the "scoundrels" of the McCarthy era. The Trillings, however, maintained that it was possible to oppose the red baiting tactics of the '50s without explicitly endorsing the views of the leftists then being prosecuted...
...Numb Commitment." A pair of teenagers married straight out of high school become hired "parents" to a flabby mental case in his 20s, and his insanity tinges their inexperience with crazy shades of age and sexual maturity. Age roles are almost always convoluted and distorted. T.V. is a constant scoundrel...
...changing in a deeper way that may have nothing to do with the new presidency. The paralyzing tone of apology and self-denigration is vanishing from public discourse. Americans find themselves unashamedly eager to be Americans. Samuel Johnson's line ("Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel") was interminably quoted in the old skirmishes between hardhats and the dissident young; but patriotism was never merely that. Love of country must always be rescued from scoundrels (Know Nothing nativists, racists, anti-Semites and other thugs), and Americans seem to know that now, seem briskly capable of loving their country...
...Rachel Ward, like Apollonia, is one of Zoli's exotics. She is English, a former art student with a flamboyant figure (dress designers, she says, "were always strapping my breasts down") and an eye on an acting career. Modeling?she is this year's Lincoln Mercury girl and Revlon Scoundrel perfume girl?pays the bills nicely but does not interest her much. At 23, she lives in Los Angeles, and has so far appeared in two horror films, Terror Eyes and Bump in the Night. Brooke Shields, she says, arching her willowy neck, "is a rotten actress...
...story and reads like a fourth installment of Playwright Lillian Hellman's memoirs. In the latter guise, it is not a sequel but a haunting. Its 92 pages of actual text skip glancingly over the life already set forth in An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973) and Scoundrel Time (1976). This time, though, Hellman seems less interested in setting her record straight than in wondering whether such a task is possible at all. She writes: "So much of what you had counted on as a solid wall of convictions now seems on bad nights, or in sickness, or just...