Word: waking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FATAL IMPACT, by Alan Moorehead. Writing in the wake of Captain Cook, Bougainville and other great Pacific navigators and explorers, the superbly skilled journalist-historian Alan Moorehead takes soundings of philosophic depth-savage and civilized man in confrontations unresolved to this...
They said goodbye to the grand old lady of 39th Street with a gala wake. The farewell performance at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House (1883-1966) drew 3,900 guests and three generations of conductors to reminisce through hits and bits from 25 operas. The hello to the new house had actually started with a bang a few days earlier. KER-BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house...
...took another one to bed with her, and the night after that another. Within a year she was up to three, four, five a night. Sometimes she threw in a couple of yellow dolls, just to make sure, and in the morning she swallowed a green doll to wake her up. Pretty soon she started passing the pills out to her actress friends, and before long all the leading ladies in this book are absorbing Seconal by the shovelful. Life turns into a barbituratrace that is bound to come to a bad end. One of Jennifer's friends winds...
...drunk Canadians are creations of T. D. Allman '66. The Dawn of the Super-Renaissance" rises on these two sinners as they sit in the wake of a wild party, reliving their amours. Each is a kind of narcissistic, overgrown adolescent, his dim emotions locked in his sensual tastes. The story is about the feelings that somehow force their way through the pair's collegiate preoccupations. Allman's prose plays over the senses without being heavy-handed. The story moves along rapidly, making graceful transitions between narrative and introspection. With the final knockout punch, feeling--as an emotion, as well...
...critics. I've never made films for either of them. Disneyland is not for children. I don't play down." Or up. "I've always had a nightmare," he says. "I dream that one of my pictures has ended up in an art theater, and I wake up shaking." The audience he aims at is "honest adults." In short, it is himself. "We're selling corn," he says, "and I like corn...