m759 @ 8:00 PM
Where
Entertainment Is God
(continued)
Google
News at about 7:37 PM –

| The
Eiger Sanction, by Trevanian –
"Because CII men worked in foreign countries without
invitation, and often to the detriment of the established governments,
they had no recourse to official protection. Organization men to the
core, the CII heads decided that another Division must be established
to combat the problem. They relied on their computers to find the ideal
man to head the new arm, and the card that survived the final sorting
bore the name Yurasis Dragon. In order to bring Mr. Dragon to the
United States, it was necessary to absolve him of accusations lodged at
the War Crimes Tribunal concerning certain genocidal peccadillos, but
CII considered him worth the effort."
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m759 @ 10:31 AM
In
the Details
For kids– NY Times– "Hit-Girl
survives."
For adults– LA Times–
"Dede
Allen dies at 86; editor revolutionized
imagery, sound and pace in U.S. films
Her work on 1967's 'Bonnie and Clyde'
ushered in
a new aesthetic that's now the standard in American film"
Claudia Luther of the LA Times on Allen,
who died yesterday—
"… she learned the craft of editing: the assemblage of various
scenes to create a coherent film.
In the early days of Hollywood, the cutters, as they were
called, were often women, perhaps because, as Allen once commented to
author Ally Acker, 'women have always been good at little details, like
sewing.'"….
"Ebert wrote of Allen's work on 'The Hustler' that she found
the rhythm in the pool games— 'the players circling, the cue sticks,
the balls, the watching faces— that implies the trance-like rhythm of
the players. Her editing "tells" the games so completely that if we
don't understand pool, we forget that we don't.'"
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“Oscar is your name,” she
said firmly.
“Oscar and
Aster. Scar and Star.”

or, Deja
Vu All Over Again
Top two obituaries in this
morning's NY Times list–
Simons reportedly died on
April 5,
Aubrey on April 6.
This journal on those dates–
April 5 –
April 6 –
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

See also Leary
on Cuernavaca,
John O'Hara's fleeting reference
to Cuernavaca in Hope
of Heaven,
and Cuernavaca
in this journal.
"Concept (scholastics' verbum
mentis)– theological analogy of Son's procession as Verbum
Patris, 111-12" –Index to Joyce and Aquinas,
by William T. Noon, Society
of Jesus, Yale University Press 1957, second printing 1963,
page 162
"Back
in 1958… [four] Air Force pilots were Team Daedalus, the best of the
best." –Summary of the film "Space
Cowboys"
"Man is nothing if not labyrinthine."
–The Vicar in Trevanian's The
Loo Sanction\
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Commentary
by T.S. Eliot –
"At the moment which is not of action or
inaction
You can receive this: 'on whatever sphere of being
The mind of a man may be intent
At the time of death'—that is the one action
(And the time of death is every moment)
Which shall fructify in the lives of others:
And do not think of the fruit of action.
Fare forward."
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