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...reaching for one perfect final portrait of man, and his avaricious eye is often bigger than his brush. "I am trying to communicate with myself, and I keep hoping that one day I'll knock myself backward with the impact of what I've done." Until then, the chances are good that Bacon will continue bowling over everybody else...
...that he fought hard, drank a lot, carried influence among his male peers in C.M.E. as the best among equals, and weilded genuine authority only over the age-group that rides souped-up bicycles and smokes cigarettes with great flourish. Quick, wild-grinning, tall and made taller by the brush of his untended process, he was working when he could, hustling what he could, living round the circle of his relatives and women, and working out his own "race problem" by rolling white drunks and taking potshots at cops...
...sound, one-sell" approach based on the slogan that "Things Go Better with Coke." Fortnight ago at Pepsi-whose slogan is "For Those Who Think Young"-New President Donald Mclntosh Kendall, after only a month on the job, wielded a broom that swept out six vice presidents and will brush in a revamped, decentralized distribution system aimed at making Pepsi a more powerful challenger to Coke...
...Vicious. "By infecting us with his evil," Sartre concludes complacently, "Genet delivers himself from it." This switch on Freudian analysis involves more than just turning his readers into a collective listening analyst. For Genet it means tarring them with the same brush as himself. His writings abound in emotional traps that lure a reader along the path of natural human feeling only to jar him with some small monstrosity at the end. In Our Lady of the Flowers, for example, Divine's despair is so eloquently described that the reader is moved to the kind of sympathy one feels...
There is evidence that the Book-ofthe-Month Club could not exist with out Rumer Godden. In the 24 years since she published Black Narcissus, she has provided B.O.M. with half a dozen of those soft-focus domesticated dra mas that brush across a reader's mind as soothingly as a summer breeze...