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...most impressive in the history of pop music. Though his B-grade movies were financially successful, he was nearly eclipsed for most of the '60s by the rock groups that followed in his path, especially the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Then, sensing that the time was ripe, he made a live appearance in Las Vegas in 1969, returning again and again in the past three years and touring the country as well...
Fuel for Critics. To be sure, ITT has not been proved guilty of any wrongdoing; for example, its methods of computing its taxes seem entirely legal. But in attempting to lay to rest the suspicions, Geneen and his aides have sometimes seemed like small boys caught stealing ripe apples. Testifying at Senate hearings, they have told confusing stories and committed some incredible gaffes. The most memorable, perhaps, was Vice President William R. Merriam's explanation of why he ordered ITT's Washington files fed into a paper shredder after publication of the Dita Beard memo. Democratic Senator...
...film begins and ends with a set of ripe trumpet arpeggios so full of undefined resonances, comic melancholic, and heroic, that you doubt a film could ever create a heady enough mixture of its own. It does, and the brew is not only heady but true, not only true but important. It makes us feel again, in a modern context, what the wicked have always known: that there is no God, and that the men who rule the earth in his stead are those with the biggest compensating pictures of themselves...
...works; and yet it doesn't. The book exudes freely without quite giving of itself and hints at cloudy meanings without any apparent obligation to follow through on them. The Blood Oranges, like anything wholly out of time, can never grow. Like ripe fruit and sweet erotic fiction (which it is), it can only shrink and fade when we finally flee Illyria (which we must) and retreat into the more familiar haunts of life itself...
...Wodehouse has reached the ripe age of ninety, and according to the list Simon and Schuster give us. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds is his seventy-fifth book. He started writing at about the same time as Joyce or, say, about the time Mark Twain died. The dust-jacket photograph shows Mr. Wodehouse touching his toes without bending his knees--something I have yet to be able to do. He is a remarkable...