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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LETTERS FROM ICELAND, by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice. A minor masterpiece, written in 1936 when two talented, ir reverent young poets knocked about above the tree line and put time...
Nabokov's tall, gentle father was an ex-Guards officer who could trace his family tree back to ancient Muscovite princes; he was also a professor of criminal law, and that rarity in Czarist Russia, a liberal politician as well. He held a seat in the first Russian Parliament. In 1906?when Vladimir was seven ?Czar Nicholas II illegally dissolved the Parliament less than a year after its establishment. Nabokov's father signed a manifesto exhorting popular resistance to the move?and went to jail...
Radar Screen. For wearers and spectators alike, the nude look presents certain problems. "If you run while wearing see-throughs," says Penelope Tree, "you have to be careful. You could overflow like warm Camembert cheese." There are the oglers, against whom Mrs. Scull protects herself by taking off her glasses: "That way, being nearsighted, I can't see people's reactions." And there are those for whom ogling is not enough. Photographer Susan Greenburg-Wood wore her first see-through to a Lincoln Center benefit in Manhattan; all was well until intermission, when suddenly, she recalls, "one woman...
This was not all that he did for the family. He set them up with ten French-speaking servants in his mansion on 46th Street in Manhattan, bequeathing them a luxurious life-style that included a listing in the Social Register and a spuriously noble family tree-an embellishment not unheard of in those days among Americans with pretensions. One of the Auchinclosses, John Davis notes, concocted a chart tracing the family's descent from the royal lines of England, Scotland and France...
...greed--attachment to material goods--begins to tun them against each other, and the film becomes darker and darker as they and their material situation decline. White, recalling their former virtuousness, is now a mockery--certainly in the scene where the dentist murders his wife next to a Christmas tree in the dark. He then flees, but he is pursued by a rival. The film ends with their meeting in Death Valley...