Word: twistings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kerouac has taken the slightly less than original idea that life is like a road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...
...only sins against good taste, he argues, but is no place where a man can be sick with comfort or die with majesty. Agush with strong and sensible views on everything from bathroom faucets to skyscraper spires, Milan's Ponti exuberantly looks forward to the day when walls twist like trees and look like vegetables. See ART, The Pleasures of Ponti...
...Pennsylvania Turnpike. Teamed up with a big array of foreign flatfeet to perform his mission, Mature grandstands it like a one-man beachhead in dodging the stilettos of a murderous band of toughs who jump him in a sleazy Roman hotel. This Donnybrook provokes the most sensible twist of the entire plot: a Roman police captain, Mature's own colleague, orders him tossed into a cell in protective custody. The cop's undebatable reasoning: criminals are a much greater menace to Mature than he is to them. If only bungling Vic had been kept safe in the pokey...
...issue is complicated in the case of the artist-man who Tanner, or at least Don Juan, is. When such a person, possessing Shaw's enigmatic "Life Force," encounters the mother-woman, conflict is intensified because the artist is unwilling to submit to domesticity. A third twist is developed as the mother-woman also turns out to be an artist-mother-woman, which Anne Whitefield is. Thus the sexual trapping is extended to encompass broad questions of artistic self-realization in the face of domestic morality and social mores...
...twist of Senate cloakroom politics, two far-apart issues-Negroes' civil rights in the South and federal power policies in the Northwest-got linked together on Capitol Hill last week, with surprising results...