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Along with 9% mortgages, roadside diners and the Everly Brothers, the all- American vacation is making a comeback. As millions of tourists enter the last items in their summer itineraries, they are setting out to explore what John Steinbeck called "this monster of a land." Travelers will be driving down country roads, hiking in the mountains, jogging on the beach. Their expeditions will spark a business boom for hotel owners and cruise operators, car-rental companies and motor-home manufacturers. In all, some 92 million Americans and 24 million foreigners are expected to vacation in the U.S. this year...
...crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes place. And a wary customer may be forgiven for wondering if the shades of D.W. Griffith and John Steinbeck are warring for possession of Writer-Director Robert Benton's soul...
NONFICTION: The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ∙Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859, Joseph Frank E.B. White: A Biography, Scott Elledge ∙Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank ∙Traveling Light, Bill Barich ∙The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer, Jackson J. Benson...
...society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place Pigalle boite. In the '40s and '50s she ran clubs in Mexico City and Rome, then quit in 1961, saying...
...fact, the result-Travels with Charley-was a charming little book. Benson might well have made his strongest case for Steinbeck as a rambling raconteur, or as a superb short-story writer. 77?^ Red Pony and The Leader of the People live on as classics for the loving precision with which they portray a young boy's painful need to grow up and an old man's passion to recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious...