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...strongest presence in the novel -wilder than Bronson, more outrageous even than Muldoon-is the author. Born in Buenos Aires, graduated from Harvard, now a professor of Spanish and Latin American literature at Tufts, J.M. Alonso, 34, is one of the most exotic students of American character since that other Hispano-American, George Santayana. Tirelessly inventive in his theories and his jokes, Alonso exuberantly refuses to draw lines between the two. But on at least one or two points, he would seem to be speaking seriously, and for himself. Like Santayana, he knows in his Latin bones something the natives...
...Hardly, Watson. My Private Life is directed by one Billy Wilder, a Vi ennese. From such a man one has the right to expect either gothica, like Sun set Boulevard, or antic farce, such as Some Like It Hot. Instead, we are presented with what future critics will call "Some Like It Tepid," a listless ac count of ourselves v. the Kaiser's agents. Moreover, it portrays me as inept. A lady twists me 'round her finger." "Mmmmm...
...Quite,"said Holmes drily. "Personally, I admire parody - when it pinks the host, not the parasite. Wilder never understood his subjects well enough to satirize us. He is even off in his details - my brother, for instance, is played by the lean Christopher Lee. As you have noted in The Greek Interpreter, Mycroft is 'absolutely corpulent.' The entire effort may, I think, be ascribed to an insufficiency of imagination, not unlike Sir Henry Baskerville...
...Chomsky's language was calm, restrained, almost antiseptically reasoned; he was, one feels, especially careful to obey the intellectual ground rules of a political world-view which was otherwise alien and unacceptable to him. In At War With Asia, he rejects that constraint, and his language is less careful, wilder, and in many ways far more moving...
...percentage craze is growing wilder. According to its latest ads, Score makes hair "juicy" and "actually 12% plumper." The account people at Wells, Rich, Greene, the agency that dreamed up the ad, insist that this figure was established in microscopic measurement tests. Similarly, Crisco Oil claims that it splatters 35% less than other oils. To determine this percentage, Procter & Gamble research men say they repeatedly collected the splatter of eight frying oils on aluminum foil and measured the weight of the sheets...