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Fleur the writer relishes her exposure to unending inspiration for her novel so much that she exclaims, often, "How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century." Life becomes complicated and less than wonderful when Fleur finally notices the similarities between her novel and her own, real world. By that time no one can tell whether her novel is predicting life or life predicts the outcome of her own work...
...Channing may not always place his hand consciously on the pulse of his age." When Channing fails as an emblem of his generation. Delbanco shifts to a discussion of America in the nineteenth century, and with thoughtfulness and clarity, connects the dilemmas of this period to those of the twentieth century. When the author declares that "America has become a collection of self-interested combattants swirling about one another," he could easily be describing our own time as well as the 1830s...
...Bakshi has taken on more than a lusting feline or a surreal novel, and tackles pop music of the twentieth century. That he seeks unity and tries to place it on the screen is admirable, but his attempt to attribute such various forces as blues and punk under one man's family is lunacy...
...STEVEN MUNATONES--another recruit who hung up his goggles when he turned Crimson, water polo ace DAVID FASI, and ex-swimmer PAM STEDMAN... At the women's Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships at Brown University last week, sophomore butterfly ace KATHLEEN "MAD MAC" McCLOSKEY celebrated her twentieth birthday in fine style. Not only did she receive several cakes and a few singing serenades, but the team presented her with a rubber duck life preserver which she wore to lunch at the Marriott Hotel...Although co-captain and Rhodes Scholar DEBBIE JACOBS was prevented from competing in the Ivies because...
Naturally, Fate wins his hand. But so what? After three hours, Polanski's experiment in gentility is over. As Thomas Hardy turns in his grave, we fervently hope that Polanski returns to the cynicism, the terror, and the grotesquery of the Twentieth century that he translates so well into...