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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SEYMOUR HERSH J.F.K.-Marilyn papers turn out to be about as real--and as journalistic--as the Hitler diaries...
What's missing in U Turn is a window into Stone's '60s obsession, which begat his Vietnam trilogy, The Doors and JFK. But all that and more are in A Child's Night Dream, an autobiographical fantasy written in 1966-67. The book's Oliver follows the road of Stone's busy young life and often guns into the overdrive of desire (a meeting with Julie Christie) and horror (vivid images of a war he had not yet fought in). With punch-drunk punctuation and verbs-a-poppin' prose, Stone imitates Joyce, Kerouac, Mailer...
...conquer nature within an exposition about the dangers of pesticides to animal and human life. Despite the formidable opposition of the chemical industry, which ridiculed Carson as an overly emotional woman unqualified to judge the health effects of compounds like DDT, her thorough research and exquisite ability to turn dry science into evocative prose won the hearts and minds of the public, who made the book an enormous best seller...
...tragic that Diana died just as she was emerging from her past troubles and, with new maturity, getting ready for a different life. We first glimpsed her as a lovely fairy-tale bride. We then saw her turn into a frantic and disturbed young wife, fighting for the affections of her husband, who, incredibly, preferred another woman. We watched as she emerged bruised yet with fresh strength and purpose. She learned as she grew: the naive, clueless girl was evolving into a confident woman. She forged a unique role for herself, using her luminous presence to focus attention on important...
...reminded by my research, though, it was only in 1970 that the British government, after countless centuries, decided that a pound sterling did not, in fact, consist of 20 shillings, each of which consisted in turn of 12 pence. Suddenly, the pound consisted of simply 100 pence--a system whose logic and simplicity must have struck the average English adult as positively disorienting...