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...search of his true identity. Like Bloom in darkling Dublin, like Mitty in the mazes of Waterbury, Conn., he dissolves into fantasies elaborated to suggest simultaneously a madness in himself and in America. Headlines, brand names, movie stars, sports heroes, billboards, road signs, dirty jokes-they whirl in his head like garbage in a Disposall. And what's there when Faust flips the chopper off? An almighty typographical mux that is often confusing but amusing...
...three zealous screen writers, to whom the Williams original "suggested" a long, lurid flashback starring Natalie Wood as Alva. During her tenure as main dish at her mother's boarding house for railroad men, Natalie catches her breath occasionally to indicate that she is not long for this whirl. Meanwhile, Kate Reid plays Mama as a sleazy old bagful of Southern comforts who snaps like a lizard whenever Alva mentions striking out alone to taste the high life of Noo Awlyuns...
Absurdity Is Fact. "Almost all present movements are anecdotal," says Le Pare. "The real interest of a painting is its visual presence, not the fact that a naked woman has rolled on it." "Presence" in his works is felt by pressing buttons. Motors whir, lights whirl, and metal mirrors wiggle back and forth fun-house style. By eliminating the human figure, and even human scale, Le Pare runs opposite to pop or any art style. He strikes out for a world where science and art meet, where absurdity is nonetheless fact, where reality, however abstract in appearance, is still reality...
...rotting typhoon of a book? In his bestselling first novel King Rat, James Clavell may have been only clearing his throat for this one, which seems every bit as long as it is. Its narrative pace is numbing, its style is deafening, its language penny dreadful. All the characters whirl like dervishes, especially Dirk Struan, a kind of Scottish superman who can borrow $5,000,000 in silver ingots from an Oriental tycoon, invent binoculars, and corner the world supply of cinchona bark, all without breathing very hard. Well, almost. His Scots accent wavers a bit under stress: "Damned...
...years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes the whole craft in effect a gyroscope resisting any movement from its original position. To keep copters from toppling over like drunken ducks, manufacturers hinged the rotor blades, killed the gyroscope effect with a cumbersome complex of knuckles and joints...