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...Diversion. To show how things are, with nothing subtracted for propriety or added for spice, is the sole aim of naturalism, the earnest flat-footed literary school of which Farrell has been perhaps the most determinedly flat-footed U.S. member. His career, beginning with his wildly successful Studs Lonigan trilogy, has been ruled by the naturalistic writers' obsessive need to prove, over and over again, that life is not art. It is a lesson that occasionally needs teaching, and Farrell and such hesitant early experimenters as William Dean Howells cleared away a good deal of literary rubbish by writing...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford spice an early married life with dollops of humor and bright good looks...
...first foray at playwriting, Novelist Muriel Resnik sprinkles spice and sentiment with a light hand and adds a fair dollop of wit. The confection is well served by an able cast, the perfection by Sandy Dennis. Liquor may be quicker, as Ogden Nash once argued, but Sandy is dandy...
...made much easier, he says, by the staff of 60 lawyers which works under him. "One learns one's job almost too quickly here, since governmental work is all consuming. The job lasts all day. Politics is discussed during working hours, during social events, and is even the spice of gossip...
Many a studious observer has seen for himself that male insects use special tricks to woo reluctant females. Crickets and grasshoppers are musically inclined; butterflies lean to perfumes; mayflies spice up their seductions with dancing...