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...slight, blond-moustached Robinson, asked several cab drivers for help, but the drivers shrugged. He then followed the youth up Garden St. Near the Unitarian Church cemetary, the youth began to follow two girls, keeping within a step of them...
...likes that kind of spare, John O'Hara-type dialogue, and no wonder, since he is the novelist's stepson, child of O'Hara's third wife by her first marriage. "John," he says, "taught me a good deal about writing dialogue," and the blond, bespectacled Yaleman ('58) showed how well he had learned by winning the $10,000 Harper Prize for unpublished novels, which means that Harper & Row will publish his P. S. Wilkinson in January. C.D.B. has reached a certain critical plateau, however. Since The New Yorker published his first short story...
Peter Van Eyck, a big blond German who looks like the Sportspalast sculpture of Superman, plays the chief engineer of an isolated oil-pumping station somewhere in the northern Sahara: a tyrannical infant with an infantile solution to the problem of suffering-he gives pain to other people and keeps pleasure for himself...
...blond behemoth also excels in the hammer throw, where he took first place in the Penn relays with a 179' 10" toss...
...meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance, and the impassioned auto-accessories dealer who smashes his car for love. If the reader is the least bit wakeful, he goes on to meet Consolina, the servant girl who admires blond men and Clara, the fortuneteller's fickle daughter. The face begins to ache from all the faint smiling, and insomnia sets...