Word: wilde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLACK JACK, by Leon Garfield (Pantheon; $4.50). Resurrected after hanging, Black Jack and a young apprentice begin a wild progress across 18th century England that leads to murder, body snatching, and a love story. A splendid swashbuckling tale...
MANHATTAN IS MISSING, by E. W. Hildick (Doubleday; $3.95). A science-fiction title, a threatening ransom note, a secret meeting, and a wild chase across Central park-all more or less in pursuit of Manhattan, a fussy Siamese...
...history the Anglo-Irish missed includes the whole Industrial Revolution. The wit of Wilde and Bernard Shaw jumps us back over the smokestacks to the English Restoration, when Dublin and London were more like country towns and a man had time to work on his wit. Now the English have stopped exporting clever fellows across the Irish Sea. Yet their dandyish wit lingers in the air, and when it flicks against the grotesque imagery of the Gaels, it sets off one of those wild word-fires, fastidiously phrased, that can sometimes blaze up in pubs and books alike, becoming...
...film maker dedicated to telling truths and still preserving the legend of the American West. In feature films (Ride the High Country, Major Dundee) and television shows (The Westerner), his characters are eminently fallible, their deeds frequently inglorious. They are legends both because and in spite of themselves. The Wild Bunch is Peckinpah's most complex inquiry into the metamorphosis of man into myth. Not incidentally, it is also a raucous, violent, powerful feat of American film making...
...Poor Dad, Kopit displayed a minor gift for surrealistic comedy, and in Indians he has attempted to entertain when not pulpiteering. The format is that of a Buffalo Bill Wild West show. In London, where the work originally opened, the parody-circus scenes came first, including the last-minute rescue of the innocent maiden from the ignoble savages. The somber account of the expropriation, humiliation and decimation of the Indians followed, together with the pleas of their chiefs...