Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Shaw has appeared in over two dozen movies (he was the conned con man in The Sting), the theater is his true territory. A graduate of London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he starred in The Royal Hunt of the Sun and, on Broadway, in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker and Old Times. Pinter returned the compliment by directing The Man in the Glass Booth, a play Shaw adapted from one of his own five novels. For all this, Shaw still resents what he calls "the English snobbishness about the superiority of acting onstage." He likes...
...story of how the crown, like a spider stretching its tentacles, became the absolute source of political and economic power in Russia, making opposition from interest groups impossible for 500 years. When opposition finally did come in the late nineteenth century, the crown reacted with the slow, sharp sting of the police state. For Pipes, it seems only natural that when the Bolsheviks established their own supremacy thirty years later, they adopted the police apparatus that had shadowed their childhood. "Systems remain the same," Pipes said. "Only the personalities tone down...
...Movie Producer Julia Phillips seems somewhat like the leading character in Erica Jong's novel Fear of Flying. Which may be appropriate, since Phillips has bought the screen rights to the ribald bestseller and will start filming the movie version in August. Phillips, 31, who co-produced The Sting with her now estranged husband Michael, shares her rented Beverly Hills home with Actor Gregory Johnson and her daughter Kate, 1%. She is considering Actresses Barbra Streisand, Brenda Vaccaro, Goldie Hawn and more than a dozen others for the leading role of Isadora Wing, but has not made...
...THOUGH THE insect metaphors held over from Korea had not disappeared, they had lost most of their sting. It was so clear that the insects would take care of themselves. Far more serious, under the circumstances, was most papers' inability to resolve their overview even a little, to vary their alarms of struggle and flight with any specifics about what immediately preceded and followed them. For example, why were the refugees running away...
HERSEY'S WRITING is ideally fitted to the novel's content. The short, almost choppy sentences express conversation well, and almost embody thoughts deliberated and forgotten in microseconds. At times, his Hemingwayesque turn of phrase verges on journalism, but even this is effective. Hersey is trying to sting minds with his nightmare world, and the more matter-of-fact he can be, the greater the impact. He puts you in the lines, where it's easy to feel the invasion and massacre of privacy, easy to remember the tensions of shared or walk-through bedrooms, easy to imagine Harvard Square...