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More of the other poems in this issue are no more than the sum of their parts. They strive too hard for effects, and seem to come from the poet's vocabulary instead of his experience. The most shameless specimen of this kind of bombast is Worth Long's "Hope Unborn." For example...
...ignite World War III, Producer-Director James B. Harris ignores it. Plowing steadily along in the wake of Dr. Strangelove and Fail Safe, his drama is sharpest in its seriocomic side-glances at counterespionage aboard ship. The best scene takes place in sick bay, where diagnosticians earnestly analyze a specimen of floating garbage to see if they can detect Red cabbage, a staple of Soviet submarines. In another cryptic comment on cold war manners, a Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton...
...COLLECTOR. Samantha Eggar is a rare specimen captured by a demented lepidopterist (Terence Stamp...
...COLLECTOR. Samantha Eggar is a rare specimen captured by a demented lepidopterist (Terence Stamp...
...Elke Sommer essays a predictable Treatise on Eugenics about a free-thinking Swedish miss who tours Rome seeking a perfect specimen of Latin manhood to sire an illegitimate child. In the end, of course, Elke must choose between her theories and the prospect of breeding urchins with her hired chauffeur, a sturdy but steady Neanderthal...