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True, in another and better world, where homosexuality would go uncensured and unnoticed, Maurice would be little more than sentimental tripe. But in our world, the sentiment achieves an ironic edge, and the fond and gentle narrative counterpoints the absurd prejudices which kept the novel so long unread...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: A Manly Type of Love | 10/16/1971 | See Source »

WHEN Myra Breckinridge premiered last July. Stanley Kauffmann wrote that John Huston's performance in such tripe was what he had come to expect from the once-deified director; that whenever he went to see a film which Huston either acted in or directed, he couldn't help thinking of how much the late James Agee had admired him. Kauffmann thought the wrong man died...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Books Saints and Sycophants | 1/21/1971 | See Source »

Neither Dickens nor Shakespeare wrote so-what tripe that gets nowhere and is in some fashion nowadays. Nor did they glorify characters whom even the ablest of modern psychiatrists couldn't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Right or Wrong: A Maury Sampler | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

...criminality. The second danger, which is perhaps even more insidiously deleterious to the public taste and morals, is the fact that there is in this situation an enormous financial incentive to publish twaddle-yards and yards of mediocrity, acres of bad fiction and triviality, square miles of journalistic tripe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Passion for Ideas and Order | 3/9/1970 | See Source »

...COUNTRY CLUB by Nancy Bruff. 339 pages. Bartholomew House. $6.95. Worldly doings and undoings on and around a posh golf course. Pure tripe, but wait until you see the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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