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...wonder that in her memories and fantasies, Linda pines for a figure of innocence, guile, power, vulnerability. Someone who understands and needs her. Something better than a man. A boy. A child. Her child. The child she conceived at 15 in a tussle with a fairground Casanova. The son she bore and, within two days, was forced to give up. If she can find him, 20 years later, perhaps she can reclaim the dreams of her youth and get a first grip on maturity. "Come soon," she whispers through the mirror to her onetime son and would-be lover. "Come...
...began at the peep show. One of the first movies -- an 1890s record of the belly dancer Fatima's dance -- stoked demands for its suppression. As the American cinema grew from fairground fad to worldwide obsession, it seasoned its content for the broadest tastes: no nudity, no naughty words, no violence. And, until the case of The Miracle in 1952, no constitutional cloak. In that year, ruling on Roberto Rossellini's parable of a peasant woman (Anna Magnani) impregnated by a bearded stranger (Federico Fellini) whom she believes to be St. Joseph, the Supreme Court ruled that films were...
...Mother (Adam Baldwin). Crazy Earl (Kieron Jecchins), who poses next to a sprawling Viet Cong corpse, pays ironic tribute to the enemy: "After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not havin' anybody around worth shootin'." Later, when he picks off a couple of V.C. like fairground ducks, his face creases in a smile of dread...
...trainer. He traced his finger a couple of miles down a country road. "That's where I grew up," he said, looking down at New Concord, a tiny community of 1,800 in which his father had worked as a plumber. He located the county fairground and the railroad tracks where he used to play. Glenn makes much of the self-reliance he developed in New Concord and later in the Marines. In Washington, he drives his own car everywhere and mows the lawn himself. When his wife Annie needs to come to the capital, he drives alone...
...Horror! Humor! Fairground Art (Abbeville; 312 pages; $85) offers 1,100 illustrations (700 in glorious color) of European and American carnival equipment and advertising, many of which deserve an exclamation mark. Authors Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward provide a pictorial history of their eye-catching subject, from the primitive wedding-cake carousels of the last century to the heavy-metal speed rides of today. The history of the merry-go-round discloses an intriguing variety of national tastes. Americans preferred animals in armor; the French were fond of cats and bunnies; and the Germans liked galloping pigs. As fascinating...