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...Da," the loudspeaker suddenly says. Gery sucks harder, then begins to cry. He is hungry, and the empty nipple brings him no food. The nurse comforts him. Even at the age of four days, the lessons of life can be hard...
...Aspen's packed music tent last week (and not only because of the 30° F weather) when Peter Blake, chairman of the department of architecture and planning at Catholic University of America, showed slides of the future as envisioned in the past. The "ideal cities" of Leonardo da Vinci or Etienne-Louis Boullée, although devoid of people, were at least images of fantastic beauty. The modern future, as imagined by Antonio Sant Elia in 1914, Ludwig Hilberseimer in 1928 and Le Corbusier in 1934, has a nightmarish, totalitarian quality, akin to George Orwell...
...withdrawn from competition, reportedly at the insistence of the French government, which is seeking to solidify its relations with the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam. The caution is understandable: this film, shot partly in mainland China, is a powerful piece of humanist propaganda about a family trying to escape Da Nang three years after the U.S. forces evacuated Viet...
...directors he's worked with in one all-caps assault: "THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF WHAT THEY HAVE TO 'SAY' CANNOT COVER THE BOTTOM OF EVEN A SMALL TEACUP." This blanket statement unravels in the book's last section, in which Goldman describes trying to rewrite his old short story "Da Vinci" as a screenplay and handing it to a respected editor, cinematographer, composer, designer, and director for comments. Not only does the director, George Roy Hill, have a cupful of comments, but he also puts Goldman's hackneyed theme-the impossibility of an artist succeeding in today's world...
...continue to plug away? Well, for one thing, if his short story "Da Vinci" is any indication, none of Goldman's twelve novels will ever become standard high school curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...