Word: macdonaldization
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This is the Depression as a dream - no breadlines, no sitdown strikes, no Dust Bowl. Cannery Row is visibly a movie set, splendidly designed by Rich ard MacDonald and photographed by Sven Nykvist a subtle shade away from the realistic. The burns and hookers who inhabit it are seen as sweet dreamers whose great preoccupation is bringing together Doc (Nick Nolte), a sometime baseball pitcher, and Suzy (Debra Winger), a reluctant "floozy" who talks tough but is as lost in fantasy as everyone else...
...imports if it wants to head off tit-for-tat protectionism in the U.S. Progress has come slowly. With the U.S. economy now in a deepening recession that is sending unemployment leaping, calls for retaliation are rising just as the Administration had warned. Says Deputy U.S. Trade Representative David MacDonald: "I see a crisis in late spring or summer. The problem is the closed Japanese market itself. We are not talking about the Japanese restraining exports, we are talking about them opening up their own domestic market...
...guess God made Boston on a wet Sunday." On Hemingway: "I suppose the weakness of writers like Hemingway is that their sort of stuff demands an immense vitality; and a man outgrows his vitality without unfortunately outgrowing his furious concern with it." On Ross Macdonald: "Here is a man who wants the public for the mys tery story in its primitive violence and also wants it to be clear that he, individually, is a highly literate and sophisticated character." On actors: "Alan Ladd is hard, bitter and occasionally charming, but he is, after all, a small boy's idea...
...Free Fall in Crimson, MacDonald...
Mark J. Franklin, the protagonist of George MacDonald Eraser's new book, mines deep rewards on his arrival in London in 1909. A wealthy, enigmatic figure of taciturnity and gangling good looks, the Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He settles in as squire of the ancestral village, Castle Lancing, is accepted at the local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from...