Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contact lenses as contraceptives, opened in a Lower East Side cin bin that was soon crammed by the cab trade from uptown. And Shirley Clarke's Jason, a harrowing 120-minute interview with a black male prostitute, was offered a midtown opening as a hard-eyed cautionary tale and a surefire succes de scandale...
...genre should have dwindled out of existence months ago. Instead it has grown into a ghastly fungus that won't tolerate competition. Westerns are fewer and cheaper than ever before. Mysteries without international accents seem no longer to have a place in the Hollywood scheme of things. Raw tales of adventure--well, when did you last see a raw tale of adventure...
...Crook is the tragicomic tale of four film-flammed factory workers who quit their pedestrian jobs to go on a crime-filled joyride through the streets of Paris. A quartet of cut-rate Belmon-dos, they see themselves essentially as Robin Hoods, but swiftly become a pack of robbing hoods; their crimes escalate from glomming some gum to heisting a locomotive to kidnaping an actress...
Scenarist Paul Dehn, who also wrote the script for Spy, this time too often jumps the main track of the tale to lollygag along a branch line, and Director Sidney Lumet (The Group) has either miscast or misdirected some of his principals. Mason and Signoret, however, are pathetically impressive as a couple of mice wandering in a maze designed for rats. And as a whole, the film convincingly elucidates in a modern instance why Dante consigned traitors to the very pit of hell. Le Carre similarly perceives treason as a spiritual attitude underlying the political act. His traitors are liars...
Joys of Grass. Bolstering this familiar argument are 400-plus pages of statements, essays, papers, adulatory fiction and documentary evidence, some of which are impressive, some simply a drag. Composer-Writer Paul Bowles is present with a marihuana morality tale, and so are Baudelaire and Rabelais-under one name or another marihuana has been around for thousands of years. Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg weighs in with an essay on the joys of grass, which he wrote while smoking the stuff. It is safe to report that marihuana does not noticeably affect Ginsberg's literary style: he is as opaque...