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Not, that is, until now. This week Esquire will publish a 9,000-word chunk from Talese's as yet untitled and still unfinished book. The excerpt is about a girlie photo, the man who has carried on a masturbatory affair with that picture since 1957, and the California...
That first crucial grasp of language (which Percy dubs, for personal reasons, the "Delta Factor") is the object of "a mild twenty-year obsession" on Percy's part. It separates man from beast; it gives him a unique tool for understanding his condition. Percy associates it with another obsession of...
As newsmen and occultists descend upon the miracle worker, Maloney tests his vision. Is it fact or figment? He attempts, mentally, to remove a single item. Suddenly its underside is marked MADE IN JAPAN. The scholar becomes a prisoner of his obsession, forced to preserve the dream by repeating it...
Big Sky. Fun and games with names at this level (a couple of greedy cowpokes named Burt and Curt are also present) is a way of signifying-on the cheap-that the movie aims at something more than realistic portraiture. Director Perry and Writer McGuane are desperate for us to...
Wholesome Dream. Maurice Couve de Murville, chairman of the French National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, has pointed out at least one possible consolation of the post-Viet Nam period: "It is always good to be dealing with a reality-and Viet Nam was not a reality." To many...