Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lizinka is the living equation of death with sex. Pardoxically, she is the epitome of what Professor Wolf, the director of the school, seeks to produce: a humanitarian executioner. "This girl could stand before a camera and do anything, even bury people alive, and viewers' hearts would bleed at the thought that she might get a blister...
...loved working with kids--conducting variations on "Pop Goes the Weasal," and "Peter and the Wolf," she says, adding, "Renaldi was my mentor. He took me under his wing, inspired me to work, and even helped me get a scholarship for school...
...wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer who "lives off the flesh of young innocents." Last but not least is a young woman turning into a green, pulsating, nine-foot-tall wolf-pig in The Howling. Now that's entertainment...
...BECAUSE WOLF relies so heavily on a patchwork style to convey the sketchiness of memory, trivial events are interspersed with important ones, and connected by observations both in the present, and in the context of the 1971 trip. Although for the most part, Wolf's style succeeds in evoking a feeling for the vicissitudes of memory, the lack of focus is often frustrating, and ultimately detracts from the book's power. Unlike other autobiographies, the author claims no inherent literary value in the author's childhood per se, thus the insignificance of many of the memories becomes cloying. The attempt...
...Wolf's impressionistic style and persistent self-analysis ultimately challenges the adage that we must not forget because to forget is to be doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. Father, A Model Childhood is dedicated to the difficulty of remembering, of separating what was from what is, while preserving a sense of relevance. Is it, Wolf wonders, "impossible to escape the mortal sin of our time: the desire not to come to grips with one's self?" The existence of the book seems to prove that it is not impossible; at least it underlines the value involved...