Word: trumanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results in a headache. Likewise, the near-sighted squint with which In Cold Blood inspects its subject matter only strains the viewer. With meticulous regard for detail the film attempts to relate the facts surrounding the murder of the Clutter family by Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. Drawing from Truman Capote's research, the film version of his book reproduces the chilling aspects of this so-called "senseless" crime--the paradoxical motives of the killers, the inability of social conventions to adequately explain the atrocity, and the irony by which the state executes the killers for reasons as circumstantial...
...have Viet Nam, the U.S.S. Pueblo, De Gaulle, and other troubles. My suggestion is: ask former President Harry Truman to come out of mothballs and take over for 90 days...
After dinner at home, sometimes with students, he reads still more, gives a speech or, on rare occasion, throws or attends a party. He was perhaps the most visible guest at Truman Capote's lavish bal masque in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel in 1966, dancing for a while with a candelabrum, then tossing it around, quarterback style, with George Plimpton. "I would say," says Capote, "that he was rather flamboyant...
...latest representative of the new thing-the de-Sade-but-true school of literature-it owes something to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, except that Capote is a far better writer than Emlyn Williams, the Welsh actor and dramatist (Night Must Fall, The Corn Is Green). Williams enters the lucrative literary creep-stakes, dragging behind him two human monsters and three well-mutilated corpses. He is writing about the "Moors murders," a gruesome three-act melodrama of cold-bloodletting that captivated British headline readers from Nov. 23, 1963, when the first murder occurred, until long after...
...lily was the diagnosis-too much manner for the matter. "I had wanted it to be a simple thing," said Capote. This year, he decided to try it that way, at the 299-capacity Theater de Lys. "This is going to be the show we meant to present," said Truman. "If I'm going to lose, I want to lose...