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ONE ARM, by Tennessee Williams (211 pp.; New Directions; $4.50). This collection of short stories wears the scent of human garbage as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. Peopled with male and female prostitutes, harridans and homosexuals, the book first appeared in 1948 in a deluxe limited edition of...
Wilde himself, of course, was haunted by morality. As it pursued him, he either laughed at it or grew maudlin about it. He recognized that cynicism is but another side of sentimentality. In De Profundis, the confession he wrote toward the end of his two-year prison sentence for homosexuality...
After his ordination in 1944, his superiors allowed Father MacEwan to continue his musical career part-time. He traveled as far as New Zealand and Australia, singing to sellout houses. But before starting his first U.S. tour last month, he lost 18 lbs. just worrying about the hard-boiled audiences...
Enough people have been haunted by Father MacEwan over the past ten years to bring his HMV, Parlophone and British Columbia recordings past the million mark in sales (MGM Records plans to market U.S. releases soon). With the proceeds Father MacEwan helped rebuild his parish church of St. Margaret'...
Escape from the Ruins. Japan's moviemakers have made their comeback from the bottom. In the militaristic '30s, the Home Ministry's thought police haunted Japan's moviehouses armed with tape measures. They had the power to stop any showing, measure the films to make sure...