Word: vincents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VINCENT J. COPPOLA Houston
...complete these days without Elliott Gould. As Alfred, a photographer who specializes in snapshots of excrement, he is your average apathetic male set upon by a conventionally aggressive female named Patsy (Marcia Rodd). Her pursuit of Alfred is typical Feiffer: overpowering feminity frustrated by Silly Putty masculinity. Her father (Vincent Gardenia) bellows like the urban Babbitt he is while Mom amuses Alfred with pictures of her dead son. Another sibling snivels around the apartment in sexual ambiguity...
...late Depression era. The place, of all places, is the classified-ad department of a New York daily, and the prime instrument for working evil is the telephone. Neely's notion of atmosphere is to cram his pages with nostalgic nouns from the '30s-the Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details of sexual mutilation. As was the case with The Anderson Tapes last year, the book is just seedy enough to seem realistic and just brash enough to hold...
...yearnings of nostalgia sometimes contain a touch of morbidity, that is certainly present in the sets and costumes, which celebrate the supreme bad taste of the '20s, especially in women's dress. But nostalgia is not quite the appropriate word for the Vincent Youmans score, which has shown enduring vitality. Merely to mention the titles Tea for Two or / Want to Be Happy is to summon up the transporting glow that occasionally makes this show enchantment...
Ideal Foils. Jane Kramer, 31, a New Yorker staff writer, got her story by virtually living with Omar and Dawia for six months. She had come to Meknes with her anthropologist husband, Vincent Crapanzano, who was doing field work. In the book the Crapanzanos are thinly disguised as M. and Mme. Hugh, young American writers living near by. As Western pragmatists, they make ideal foils for the other characters. When Khadija vanishes, M. Hugh wants to charge down to the police station to start the wheels of orderly investigation. Having saved face by blaming the calamity on various "invisibles...