Word: vines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mauve Gloves, Clutter & Vine...
...began to take himself seriously. And after being out of the spotlight for a few years, Tom Wolfe is back, all over the pages of Harper's and New York Magazine last summer, and now with a new collection of essays called Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine...
...more. He has become too concerned with masks and manners to go about trapping flies. In fact, he has become a fly himself--the Truman Capote of journalism, caught up in appearances and in his own right-wing nativist assessment of American life. Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine leaves you with the feeling that if you were to suddenly say, "oh bullshit," and slam the book shut under Wolfe's nose, he would stand there dumb and amazed, little beads of fear and ignorance on his forehead, with no idea what you were talking about...
...goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street Jesus." As much as his uncertain health and assaults of melancholy, it is good taste that ultimately undoes Stahr and permits Brady and the board of directors...
KUDZU. Imported from the Orient for use as an ornamental vine, kudzu has a wisteria-like purple bloom and a smell similar to that of grape soda. It also grows at a phenomenal rate; in rural areas, naughty children are warned that they will be thrown into the kudzu patch and quickly swallowed up. The threat is not entirely unrealistic. Kudzu grows so fast that it can cover an abandoned car in a few weeks, completely overgrow an empty house in the course of a summer, and keep highway crews busy trying to clear roads. It can even cause communications...