Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen be something more than the undisputed master of one-liners? Can he actually write an unfrivolous play? A serious work? In his own apartment on Upper Fifth Avenue, Woody Allen remains as curious as the next man-and the next man, he worries, is tapping the phone and peering through the keyhole. The pad is neoclassic Allen. The windows have been widened, the duplex thoroughly decorated ("It looks," says Cavett, "like the set for the George Arliss movie, The Man Who Played God"). On the terrace, the meticulously arranged Japanese garden features live plants and coiled-up rubber snakes...
...Marquand was one of the shrewdest and best popular fiction writers of the century. He longed to write a modern Madame Bovary, but instead produced solid novels about upper middle class entanglements and sagas of newcomers struggling to join the ranks. His best books-The Late George Apley. Point of No Return-are subtle social and moral commentaries...
Aside from the occasional Cuban cigar he has bootlegged from Paris, he allows himself few luxuries. He and his third wife Peggy live with their two children in an eight-room, $240 a month, rent-controlled apartment on Broadway (upper Broadway, that is). For a man who describes himself as the most important producer in America, he pays himself a relatively small salary, something in excess of $25,000 a year-little more than petty cash for a David Merrick...
...doesn't link up Dresden with any inherent political or social conflicts it symbolizes, implying instead a state of moral squalor necessary for such a catastrophe to have taken place. And his vision is only that of Bill Pilgrim, a stupid if sweethearted protagonist, bumbling between the Ilium upper-middle-class of Vonnegut's present, the Dresden holocaust, and the planet Tralfamadore, where he cavorts with a nubile Hollywood starlet in a fantasy-world designed to protect him from being fatally bound to his depressing earthliness...
...Betsey Johnson, for instance, has turned out abbreviated leotard tops that can be worn in the office or in the pool, along with abbreviated "baby sweaters," a relatively warm way to stay cool (see color, overleaf). Scott Barrie's polka-dotted backless vests tentatively shield 30% of the upper torso of women with the nerve -and the figure-to wear them...