Word: laocoon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this way: "All you've got to do to prove your manhood is lay a woman." Group grope is very much in vogue and the choreographer who can animate a stageful of writhing, slithering, intertwined bodies stands a good chance of winning this season's Laocoon Award...
Even Match. Beset by a whole choreography of fears ("Every man his own Laocoon"), hardly able to leave his room. Wilderness half holds himself together by one purpose. The final objective of his Mexican pilgrimage is to see an old friend named Juan Fernando Martinez, fellow drinker and philosopher, who mirrors like some doomed twin the life-death forces at war in Wilderness. The ending is both pat and heartfelt. When Wilderness discovers that Juan Fernando had died six years before, he is redeemed into a kind of rebirth, and the novel fades on wheat fields ripening...
...phonograph disks but none of their low resistance to wear and tear. The trouble was that they were cumbersome: wound on one reel, they had to be threaded through the playback machine onto another reel, then rewound. In the process, the hapless user could find himself struggling like Laocoon within coils of tape. Before taped music could begin to have the mass appeal of disks, something was needed to simplify the handling...
...More Stately Mansions, the dream comes true, but it turns out to be more like a nightmare. A suffocating drama of deadly possessiveness is played out among a mother (Ingrid Bergman), a wife (Colleen Dewhurst) and a son-husband (Arthur Hill). This is a Laocoon trio, coiled in a strangling embrace in which no one can leave the others, or leave them alone. The face of love is blistered with hate, and ecstasy mirrors anguish. The language of the heart is used to mask the power politics of the emotions, and love becomes war. The terms: unconditional surrender...
...absence of a public monument (some outdoor version of the Laocoon would seem to be called for), Upton Sinclair has written his autobiography...