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...letters reveal how much time Hemingway was left alone with his writing. It was the one thing that he could not charm, intimidate, tame with fists, gun or gaff. Early comments on the subject jumble jazz-age slang with such gee whizzisms as "Gertrude Stein and me are just like brothers" and "Pound thinks I'm a swell poet." The mature craftsman finds that he has to write to be happy, that his art is his disease, his vice and obsession...
...Remarks are not literature," said Gertrude Stein. And information is not drama. Childe Byron displays the industry of an ant and no discernible intelligence...
Even Conservative Herbert Stein, the chairman of President Nixon's council of Economic Advisers, warns: "What we can do on the supply side is not big enough to solve the problem. We have demand growing by about 12% a year and supply growing by about 2% a year, which yields 10% inflation. To increase the rate of growth of supply by 50%, from 2% a year to 3% a year, which is a difficult task, would still leave an enormous inflation, especially if the increase of supply is accomplished by means like cutting taxes, which at the same time...
...Agee was at least equally responsible because he naively made executive romance a topic for public speculation. Others bitterly complained that the Bendix matter will make brains plus beauty a terrible handicap for a woman in business. Asked one New York adwoman: "Do you have to look like Gertrude Stein to get ahead...
Union City, made for $500,000 by Mark Reichert, 32, has been called the first punk-rock film noir. At first glance, the phrase fits. Deborah Harry, making her dramatic-film debut, is the blond of Blondie; Chris Stein, who composed the sepulchrally melodious score, is Blondie's lead guitarist; Pat Benatar, in a featured role, has an album of her own. And Union City is faithful to the tones and undertones of film noir, that postwar style of moviemaking that transposed Raymond Chandler's mean-streets prose and James M. Cain's haunted losers to celluloid...