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THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Carson McCullers' poetic novel has received a rather prosaic screen adaptation, but Alan Arkin's performance as the mute John Singer binds the film together by making silence deafening.
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK. Stealing a leaf from the master's book. François Truffaut has produced an homage to Hitchcock that makes up in humor what it lacks in suspense.
THE SEVENTH CONTINENT. Director Dusan Vukotic tells a sometimes ingenuous but often ingenious fairy story of two children who drift off to a magical, adult-free paradise.
BOOKS
Best Reading
FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNAL, by Eugène lonesco. In a chaotic but painfully fascinating self-analysis, one of the leading playwrights of the Theater of the Absurd discusses the neurotic roots of his art.
THE PUMP HOUSE GANG and THE ELECTRIC KOOL-AID ACID TEST, by Tom Wolfe. A collection of pieces about life styles in America, and a chronicle of the cross-country antics of Novelist Ken Kesey and his psychedelic sidekicks, by America's foremost pop-journalist.
WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. A literary time-machine trip, via short stories and essays, that gives the traveler a look at man's present dilemmas and the bleak Utopias promised for his future.
THE BEAUTYFUL ONES ARE NOT YET BORN, by Ayi Kwei Armah. A Ghanaian novelist's parable about man's struggle for liberty and dignity, staged in post-revolutionary West Africa.
THE CASE AGAINST CONGRESS, by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Misfeasance, malfeasance and other assorted knaveries by federal legislators are uncovered by the team of political columnists.
THE DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit—finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation—is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt.
BRING LARKS AND HEROES, by Thomas Keneally. The love, rebellion and death of a young soldier garrisoned at an 18th century Australian penal colony.
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9. The Senator, Pearson
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3. Iberia, Michener (4)
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8. Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Collins and Lapierre (7)
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