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Almost every piece in the Fall issue lacks a sense of life or relevancy which only vivid language can convey--strong verbs and taut imagery are prominently absent. The Advocate too often wallows in flat prose and free poetry, modes that were once, long ago, refreshing but are now, in less expert hands, stale and tired. In this issue, flat means not spare but listless, even flabby, and free means not spontaneous and natural but formless, thoughtless, and overly moody...
WOMAN IN THE DUNES. This powerfully filmed allegory from Japan translates the search for self into a vivid metaphor about a man and a woman endlessly digging to survive in a sandy hellhole...
...series, called Calhoun, was to be the story of a county agricultural agent engaged in a week-by-week struggle against boll weevils, nematodes, no-see-'ems, and other incorrigibles of the plains. Calhoun may have been a dog, but Miller's book is a vivid and often hilarious account of how TV's butchers can change any script into hamburger...
...Pumpkin Eater of the nursery thyme put his wife in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well. Giving a wry contemporary twist to Mother Goose, Penelope Mortimer's vivid first-person novel suggests that the poor creature then swiftly developed shell shock. In this slow, strong, incisive film version of the book, the ironing out of a well-kept wife's unkempt psyche is portrayed with harrowing perception by Anne Bancroft...
...Phelan apologizes "to TIME for having stolen a vivid line from you-five months before you wrote it [Oct. 23]." But for technique and style you both owe at least a nod to the old English prayer book. The comment seems to have been inspired by the lines in the litany: "From Ghoulies, and Ghosties, and three-legged beasties, and things that go boomp in the night, Good Lord, deliver us." ALLAN W. WENDT Columbia...