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However, Tom LaFarge's articles are clever and sometimes touching. He has an eye for the incisive detail that can paint an instant picture--a "jade-rimmed pince-nez," an "ivory ping-pong table" -- but sometimes he starts cataloguing trivia. With sparser details and stronger endings, his stories will be gems. Conn Nugent's revelation that Harvard football victories depress the economy is off-beat and has an angle--the sort of amusing fact-twisting that the Yale Record is more inclined to do, but very welcome in the Lampoon...
With any such retelling comes the added fascination of comparison: it is like returning to a former home to see how someone else has furnished it. In Cue for Passion the furnishings are sparser and extremely modern, with a picture window to let in strong, clarifying, psychological light. Hamlet, called Tony Burgess, comes home-sulky, sneering, perverse-after two years in Asia, certain that his new stepfather was his mother's paramour, suspecting he is also his father's murderer. This is an Oedipus-uncomplex Hamlet, so drawn to his mother that he hated his father, so identified...
...Johnson, living in a sparser age, used "scoundrel" in the singular...
...critic said, "a glorified edition of the ordinary man." On the other hand, her biography of him might equally well be called an ordinary .edition of a glorified man. It lists and describes, precisely but unimaginatively, practically everything Wells ever wrote, and it proceeds in a similar, if sparser, fashion to tick off the rest of the Wells story (falling back on pseudonyms where living people are scandalously involved). In short, it makes of "H.G." pretty much what a Baedeker would make of Alice in Wonderland...
Thus Talking Cinema, youngest world industry, thrived lustily, showed symptoms of forcing its parent, Silent Cinema, and its grandparent. Legitimate Drama, back into the sparser portions of the entertainment field...