Word: writer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cosmopolis is John Secondari's attempt to assay the urban crisis, and it is so successful that it manages to transform TV journalism into art. Editing shots of teeming Tokyo and sprawling Los Angeles so that they follow one another with a kind of rhythm, the producer-writer-narrator never lets his visiting experts stay on camera too long. Instead, Secondari uses the visual part of his program to show what the architects' voices are talking about. There after, he juxtaposes imaginative plans for cities of the future with the rot now growing at the cities' hearts...
...find pages mutilated or subversive notations made by angrier, cruder objectors to the System. Yet as Arlecq drifts from reflections on jazz music, to two desultory love affairs, to a funeral, to scenes from the failed marriage of a friend, the author manages some artful acts that reveal the writer behind the discontented esthete. Moments of fiction materialize, coolly precise, sharp and fresh as the crinkle of ice that can be skimmed from the edge of a winter puddle. Fries, moreover, can write about love without sounding like a clod or a pornographer...
...will now proceed to tell you what you want to know about Inga: there are three major sex scenes in it, the first and third being gratuitous montages of sexual intercourse between a 21-year-old ne'er-do-well writer named Karl and, respectively, a fast-and-loose blonde and Inga. The middle scene portrays Inga discovering puberty before our very eyes, then proceeding to masturbate. Not having seen any of the recent films which apparently deal in masturbation, I can't tell you how the masturbation scene in Inga rates in comparison, but I thought it was okay...
While the girl was still in the sound-proof booth, Dowling was identified as "the hero of his college newspaper's comic strip." Champi, who threw all the passes for 16 points to tie Yale in the last 42 seconds, was later identified as being also a writer of poetry...
Jack Olsen, a SPORTS ILLUSTRATED writer and author of The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story, has reconstructed the events on Monte Sole from records and the memories of the survivors. The result is one of those feats of reporting and literary journalism in which massive amounts of detail are given dramatic structure...