Word: writer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FACES. The purgatory of modern, middle-aged marriage is depicted by Writer-Director John Cassavetes with an obsessive eye for surface realism. His film has an air of grainy honesty, but his characters are so obsessed with themselves that they leave little room for audience empathy...
...terrifying." Despite the judge's plea for temperance, police cars taking the accused to and from the court needed extra protection against would-be lynchers and were covered with spittle. Newspapers received hundreds of suggestions for punishment no less demonic than poor Bernadette's exorcism. One writer suggested tying the couple to a telephone pole and "delivering them to the people's anger until their God delivered them." Another wanted to seal them into a barrel full of spikes and set it afire...
...court was swamped with threatening letters, including a postcard promising that "the entire courthouse will be blown up if they don't get the maximum penalty." Though Switzerland has no death penalty, one letter writer offered his services as a hangman "without pay." At week's end the six were found guilty; they will be sentenced this week. The worst they can expect is 20 years, for "inflicting injuries that could be reasonably expected to cause death...
...Spice of Danger. The pleasures of such a trip were well described by British Writer Eric Hiscock in Cruising Under Sail. He wrote of "the spice that a suggestion of danger lends; the satisfaction of working the winds and tides to the best advantage; the feeling of achievement when a strange coast or harbor has been reached under sail; and the never-ending fascination of handling and looking after a seaworthy yacht and her gear...
...chief literary agent in such matters is the fictional character Pierre Costals, an aristocratic writer, libertine and dedicated bachelor whom critics, rather unkindly, assume to be Montherlant's alter ego. "Literary men," Costals caustically observes, "attract crazy women the way a lump of rotten meat collects flies." And Costals is, indeed, a man much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises...