Word: spoiledness
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Gatsby presents a different problem. The valuable 20s ambience is there to be tapped, but in practical adaptation terms, the bare bones of the book's plot .are slender. It concerns the tragedy that follows when Jay Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger, tries to use his money to revive a...
The rise of H.G. Wells from a boy in extreme poverty to a man of influence in the early twentieth century is infinitely more intriguing than analogous stories on this side of the Atlantic about Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a...
Neighborhood people, galled by the filth of the streets left untended by the city and admittedly spoiled by uncaring attitudes that flourish in neglect, decided to form a committee to get folks together for volunteer clean-up days. Since the first meetings to discuss an overall neighborhood assembly had been...
At the Houston session, when a take went well, Sherrill quoted the Bible: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God." But when the drummer spoiled a quiet ending by descending with a crash, Sherrill swore: "Goddam!" He then signaled a halt and...
Although West obviously harbors a special regard for the Kennedys, their portraits seem less revealing than the others, perhaps because the public heard so much about Camelot when it was in flower. Still, few readers will forget Jacqueline Kennedy after the President's funeral: the stunned widow, about to...