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MAILER'S MONROE is a repository for hoary legends and dirty jokes told about starlets in general. And in the process reveals at least as much of the Mailer that we already knew than any new insight he has provided about his subject. His language is perhaps no flatter than anyone else who tried to write 90,000 words in 60 days, but it is not much better than his account of the Frazier Ali fight which he wrote on deadline for Life. In Marilyn, Mailer coins at least four new words: "fucky" as the description of her earlier roles...
Though the week's most startling disclosure before the Ervin committee I came from former White House Aide I Alexander P. Butterfield, there were other bits and pieces of fresh insight into the workings of Watergate as the Senators quickened their pace, working toward an Aug. 3 recess. The. witnesses and their key testimony HERBERT W. KALMBACH, 51, the President's personal attorney and longtime political fund raiser, described how he raised $220,000 for the seven Watergate defendants last year (see chart following page). He undertook the job at the request of John Dean, Kalmbach testified...
...weighty compactness of detail and insight in Wilson's prose, it gives the impression of a broad sweep of scenes and events. The irony is that although Wilson ends by calling for full-scale books on both Fuller and Fred eric the reader of this essay may not feel in need of another word on either subject...
...authors, Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, have worked overtime to build into the script bursts of quick insight. In the midst of one of Coburn's lengthy sneering speeches, he explains how he considered and then rejected the idea of buying a tropical island populated by a group of natives ready to accept him as sole owner and king. "You poor people," he realizes, "You don't deserve a good king like...
...movie conceals more than it reveals. It solicits your empathy with a predicament that most feminists have long since understood as superficial. And then it congratulates your dated insight upon its universality. It indulges in a form of fingerpointing liberalism that stops short of doing anything about the state of being it describes...