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...yearly harvest is now four, and he uses an IBM electric typewriter in place of the pencils that once lasted only three lines each before they became blunted and were tossed away. Puffing constantly on a pipe (like Maigret), Simenon begins a book by christening its characters (from a slew of international telephone books he keeps on hand for the purpose) and providing each with detailed dossiers. Maigret, for instance, is heavyset, patient as Job and frequently compassionate toward the murderers he catches. Then, in what he calls his "state of grace," Simenon's subconscious takes over and evolves...
...official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates in Foggy Bottom. Financially, at least. Last week a report on the contributors to his 1969 primary campaign showed that a slew of senior State Department officials have chipped in to re-elect Rooney. Among them: Angier Biddle Duke, Ambassador to Denmark, $100; Perry Culley, Consul General in Paris, $300; Charles Manning, Consul General in Bermuda, $1,000; William Foster, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Dis armament Agency, $300; Michel...
Using the term "bad" for the Beatles always means using it in a relative sense. Nevertheless, the entire slew of slow love songs on the two records, presumably McCartney's work, are surprisingly undistinguished. The '30's type ballads ("Sexy Sadie," "Honey Pie") have lost their novelty and much of their charm, remaining now as just so much old-fashioned schmaltz, "I Will" and "Julia," the love songs, are not inventive or gripping enough. McCartney's great period of love ballads seems over because he has not done much since the fervent days of "Things We Said Today...
...whenever she put her head outside her Fifth Avenue apartment, there were the Jackie watchers. One afternoon, after collecting young John at school, Jackie found herself and her Secret Service escort followed by several carloads of reporters. Finally, after a wild chase, the Secret Service man managed to slew his white convertible across the roadway, forcing the reporters to a screeching halt while Jackie's Cadillac disappeared...
...women-womankind, randomly represented by a number of oppressively corporeal seductresses. The tragedy of Enderby's life is the upbringing his stepmother has given him. She has stamped her foster-son with her filthy habits and enforced his life-long retreat to the lavatory. From her come the whole slew of Enderby's neuroticisms, from his fear (cropping up in the author's other books) of lost teeth (according to Freud a fear of castration as punishment for masturbation) to his repugnance for Mother Church...