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...Republic, written by Chicago's Judith Wax, 42, a humorist best known for her annual summaries in verse of the year's news in Playboy. Her model was Chaucer, who would surely have understood Watergate as well as any other bygone man, and her mode mock Middle English, including pseudoscholarly footnotes...
...dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit - but in the abstract mode, he draws like a virtuoso. The decisiveness of the arc in Blue Curve, V, 1973, is (when seen in its large, actual size - it is about 6 ft. by 9 ft.) breathtaking; no other line, one senses, could have contained the buoyant, intrusive swell of the blue with such steely...
American Graffiti is not just a sequence of events. It is a nostalgia movie a la mode and its success in reconstructing the early sixties is phenomenal. From the Coke to the burger stands with waitresses on roller-skates, from the souped-up cars to the ducktails and pony-tails, from the gang of hoods to the sock-hop, Lucas is unerring in his eye for detail and in his ability to bring his audience eleven years into the past...
...Housman did not have Bruce Pearson in mind when he wrote "To an Athlete Dying Young." Pearson, a third-string catcher for the New York Mammoths, is impossible to cast in the heroic Grecian mode. He is a Georgia backwoodsman who can't get the hang of spitting his tobacco accurately, let alone of making his teammates respect or even like him very much. His only distinction is that he has been prematurely touched by mortality, in the form of Hodgkin's disease...
...matter how humiliating the incident. That mind became earmarked with certain refusals to be incorporated into the rational--Mailer's themes began to appear with clarity: man is primitive and mystical, the human psyche does not only contain multitudes of indenters, but uses those opposites as a dialectical mode of trying to discover new ways of acting. Indeed, the original metaphor of war held true for most regions of human personality, and Mailer, instead of avoiding such turmoil, would become a protypical 20th century American and seek out all such battles. Boxing became a useful metaphor, and he used...