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Polanski has requested that he not be mentioned in any connection with the movie. The difficulty is that there are so many connections: he not only directed but also helped write the film, plays one of the principal parts himself, and his girl friend (Sharon Tate) is the female lead. But it is easy to see why Polanski would prefer to blush unseen. Neither spooky nor spoofy, Vampire Killers never manages to get out of the coffin...
...about "the ghost or two"--the handful of fragile souls that Jarrell forsesaw clustering about his grave? Instead we have nothing less than the United States Cultural All-Star Team. Robert Lowell, John Berryman, John Crowe Ransom, Marianne Moore, James Dickey, Allen Tate, Robert Fitzgerald, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Leslie A. Fiedler, Hannah Arendt, all take the podium...
...cruel." Jarrell had some pity for bad poets ("it is as if writers had sent you their ripped out arms and legs with 'This is a poem' scrawled on them in lipstick.") but he could write nothing kind about their poems. And even a few of his memorialists (Allen Tate, for instance) clearly bear scars from the lash of his terrible swift tongue...
Republican Candidate Arlen Specter, 37, district attorney and onetime liberal Democrat, ran a cautious campaign. Heeding Pollster E. John Bucci, who gave him a 2-to-1 edge at the outset of the campaign, he fought a defensive battle to keep Tate from eroding that margin. Specter, who is Jewish, refused to take a stand on a bill that would divert $26 million in state cigarette taxes to Catholic schools, and Tate-tirelessly proclaiming his card-carrying membership in the city's 400,000-strong Catholic voting bloc-blew sanctified smoke rings around...
Organized labor provided the crusher. Armed with some $200,000 from the A.F.L.-C.l.O., the mayor's machine turned out the workingman's vote in automated order. Workers thus repaid Tate's past deference to Philadelphia's big maritime unions (he recently rejected a bill to expand docking facilities to Camden, N.J., and Chester, Pa.) and his approval of a $40 million wage-and-retirement bill. Tate...