Word: tates
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXORCIST is a hit in the way that the Sharon Tate killings were. It is perversion as mystery. The characters are treated at such a hostile distance that you are inured to their pain, absolved of all connection with what happens to them. The people leaving the theater hid between their shoulders like the prisoners you see in documentaries of concentration camps. Nobody had gone to have a happy time at the movie. The movie is entertainment for lifers, a trip for the down and out. Kicks were all the audience wanted and cruel kicks they got. They got their...
THURSDAY: Valley of the Dolls. 1967. A movie that makes the average soap opera look like "Last Year at Marienbad." Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, and Sharon (Manson victim) Tate flounder through the slings and arrows of this outrageous melodrama like wounded animals. Worst movie of the sixties award. CH. 7. 9 p.m. Color...
...opened his shop with 2800 books he had accumulated as a student, and ran it until his death. The Grolier, which specialized in poetry, was one of the last of the cafes for literati. Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, James Tate Robert Bly '50, Conrad Alken '11, Robert Graves and Richard Wilbur often frequented the cozy one-room shop...
...before Commencement, last month, I watched him trade jokes with his friend, Bob Tonis, as earthy as ever. Last spring, at a Signet dinner, he matched his table companions, drink for drink, with that unpalatable vodka he used to like. And at a dinner a year ago, while James Tate was reading his poetry, Gordon sneezed, long and loud. Tate snapped "Shut up Gordon," and Gordon laughed as loud as he had sneezed...
...long, poignant sequence, the old man and his businessmen friends hon or their old teacher, nicknamed "the Gourd," who responds to their tribute by gratefully consuming large quantities of liquor. The men are touched by his almost desperate drunkenness, even as they feel threatened by his low es tate (he has been reduced to running a small noodle shop) and advancing years, so they take up a collection...