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Most of its publications deal with nonfiction in academic subjects ranging from history to science. Paragon House "aims to be a modified university press," said editorial board chairman Frederick E. Sontag, a Pomona College professor...
...hand and civil libertarians on the other. The argument went like this. The conservative gave the intuitive case against pornography based on an overriding concern for, it now sounds almost too quaint to say, public morality. Pornography is an affront to decency; it coarsens society. As Susan Sontag, not a conservative, writing in defense of pornography says, it serves to "drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being." The ordinary person, of course, does not need a philosopher, conservative or otherwise, to tell...
...documentary: a fabricated composite of newsreels, newspaper article collages, and interviews today with people who knew him then, as well as with current experts on the subject (Allen brings together an impressive array of intellectual heavyweights to mock themselves, including John Morton Blumlisted as authoring "Interpreting Zelig"--and Susan Sontag--author of "Against Interpretations...
...stills held together by a voice-over narration. This material is supported by modern interviews, shot in jarring color, in which aged witnesses (among them Mia Farrow, who plays his psychiatric savior) testify about Zelig's life. They are abetted by modern "experts," among them Saul Bellow, Susan Sontag, Irving Howe and Bruno Bettelheim, in effect playing themselves playing themselves. Like Allen, they have perfect pitch. But Allen skewers not only the modern TV form but the loopy manner of the show's antique sources. Dick Hyman contributes songs like You May Be Six People, but I Love...
...postcard and send 'em in Or how about recent history. Can you even name a bookstore, which carries two books by Vicent Aleixandre '77' In fact. If you knew anything at all about Elias Canetti '81 before last year and your name isn't Susan Sontag. I'll buy you a beer at Whitney. But what the hell, It's a gargeous day and a bunch of pitultury "All Star" strikers just played patty cake to the tune of 23-22. So here I go and send the flowers to the hospital at Mattapan, where I'll be recovering...