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Newhall also had a tremendous drive to be first and constantly left the Examiner far behind in covering the "post teen-age youth world" and watching the radical movement. Nothing pleased him more than scooping his arch rival. His biggest scoop in recent years was the Chronicle's exposé of San Francisco County Tax Assessor Russell Wolclen. The paper disclosed that Wolden gave favorable tax assessments to his friends, a crime for which he was later convicted. When the Chronicle and the Examiner merged in September 1965, much of Newhall's competitive drive was diverted into conflict...
Smirking Androgynes. But the cast has little significance in The Music Lovers. Its arch tableaux, its unstable amalgam of life and art, make it a director's picture. In Women in Love, Ken Russell turned D.H. Lawrence into tinted steam. In The Music Lovers, he makes Tchaikovsky step to the Dance of the Sugarplum Inverts. Women are thoughtless children or carnivores. Men are smirking androgynes or long-faced straight men like Modeste, Peter's brother. A classic exchange has Peter saying, "Sixth Symphony, Opus 74. It's too cold." Replies Modeste: "I'll give...
...return to romance. There is, for example, Margot Kidder, a Love Story hater ("Two marshmallow people marching around trying to be brave") and one of the great bodies of the Western world as well as the Tomato Surprise of Quackser Fortune. Or Carrie Snodgress, unforced, radiant star of the arch, dim Diary of a Mad Housewife. Perhaps the most technically skilled of the new romanticists, she insists...
...Dickens' death. A centenary can be a fete worse than death. But at best it provides a good occasion to settle accounts, not just with Dickens but with his critics and interpreters. The past century has piled up a long bill of critical complaints that he was sentimental, arch and melodramatic; that he would never do what he could merely overdo. In recent decades, on the other hand, critics have rescued him from his earlier reputation as a hearthside moralist and improvising Toby-jug showman. Readers are now ready to acknowledge with Wilson that Dickens "leaps the century...
Today the Etoile is the scene of monstrous traffic jams, as an estimated 200,000 cars are funneled every day into the grand circle from twelve avenues. Still, the place maintains its grandeur. All Paris seems to begin there, radiating majestically outward from the arch. The eternal flame flickers over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Against that setting, countless Frenchmen, who only a week before had solemnly laid a great floral Cross of Lorraine there to honor Charles de Gaulle, nodded approval of the demonstrators who marched down the Champs-Elysees toward the great landmark proclaiming: "Leave...