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...appear in the Lion Rampant, three by Bayard Chandler, a graduate student who will have a book of poetry published this fall. Chandler's writing is execrable; his use of imagery would provide budding poets with an excellent catalogue of flagrant errors to avoid. "In the Fall" abounds with trite images and mixed metaphors...
...trailed by admiring troops and adoring women. Yet Ambrosia is only the infantile country of William Steig's "Dreams of Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood by radio, telly, and newsreels: it is, alack, the imagination of his whole generation--as trite and enfeebled as the bourgeois lives around him. Chained in Alger-like dreams of limitless possibility, Billy never learns this fatal secret...
...gets . . . sooner or later." As usual, winking wickedness turns out to be mostly eyewash, but the plot-more to be pitied than censored-gets a buoyant lift from Stars Jane Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Rod Taylor. All three abandon themselves to the film version of Norman Krasna's trite Broadway farce with disarming faith, as though one more glossy, glittering package of pseudo sex might save the world...
Poetic justice is perhaps a bit oldfashioned, but it's fun. And so is practically everything else about this trite little thriller-especially Actress Davis. Exuberantly uncorseted, her torso looks like a gunnysack full of galoshes. Coarsely cosmeticked, her face looks like a U-2 photograph of Utah. And her acting, as always, isn't really acting; it's shameless showing-off. But just try to look away...
Some essays amuse and others inform; some are truly important while the value of others is chiefly historical. Some are trite and some just bore. The photographs (by Cecil Beaton and Edward Steichen among many others) and art reproductions in this oversize, handsomely bound volume are superb...