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...been devoting much of his election-year commentary to what he calls "common middle-class living experiences," like tennis, money, the strength of paper towels and the growing shortage of grandchildren ("Our kids aren't having kids any more"). These domestic dissertations, he reports, draw vastly more reader mail than his essays on politics...
...long-suffering, long-distance reader can hardly begrudge the lady her self-indulgence. She paid her dues. Once when Hemingway was diverted by a 19-year-old Italian nymphet (the model for Colonel Cantwell's love in Across the River), Mary moaned, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." Hemingway counterpointed, "Nobody knows but Gellhorn." But Martha Gellhorn, wife-Muse number three, was a successful novelist and had been married (for less than five years) to a younger, less desperate Hemingway. Mary, not Martha, was there when the Nobel prize arrived, late as usual. Mary was also there...
...have read the novel, the film, though a relatively faithful adaptation, may prove something of a disappointment. Knowing pretty much what is about to happen and how it all ends inevitably lessens the tension and excitement. Too, literature, and particularly mystery novels of this type, leave much to the reader's imagination, and the descriptive details that the author, in this case Goldman, provides, allow the reader's mind to conjure up greater horrors and a stronger sense of terror than can be produced on screen...
...extraordinarily well-developed characters and strikingly witty and realistic dialogue. Having failed to encounter anyone who has heard of this book, or anyone who knew of Goldman as anything other than a screenwriter, save for Marathon Man the novel, it seemed reasonable to attempt a reader-service and recommend Boys and Girls Together as a sure way to good vacation or an enjoyable week of bedtime reading. Goldman is a first rate entertainer, and Marathon Man, like almost everything else Goldman has had a hand in, is entertainment of a high order...
...group of characters moving along a plot line with something approximating forward momentum. Many are also equally certain that they have heard quite enough, thank you, about the miseries of Manhattan neurotics. Normally, such convictions are not only sound but healthy; when acted upon, they protect the wary reader from a good deal of gibberish and whining. Still, any critical principle worth holding is also worth ignoring if a good occasion arises. Speedboat-a non-novel novel about Manhattan neurotics-is such an occasion...