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The Sense of Period

McCabe and Mrs. Miller, by Robert Altman

by David Denby

The Atlantic Monthly, September 1971, p. 109

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    22. Our Misanthropic Movies by David Denby, pp. 144-147
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      The Peripatetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 148-151 - 4 Reviews
      1. Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol. II by Ralph G. Martin
      2. Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates
      3. Up and Down and Around by Cass Canfield
      4. Fishless Days, Angling Nights by Sparse Grey Hackle
    24. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 152-158 - 15 Reviews
      1. Meet Me in the Green Glen by Robert Penn Warren
      2. When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
      3. Goat Songs by John Weston
      4. Les Guerilleres by Monique Wittig
      5. Jeeves and the Tie That Binds by P.G. Wodehouse
      6. The Brass Ring by Bill Mauldin
      7. Von Stroheim by Thomas Quinn Curtiss
      8. The Mortgaged Heart by Carson McCullers and Margarita G. Smith
      9. Out of the Silence by Adelaide De Menil and William Reid
      10. Glory by Vladimir Nabokov
      11. Lennon Remembers by Jann S. Wenner and John Lennon
      12. Strange Stories, and Other Explorations in Victorian Fiction by Robert Lee Wolff
      13. The Hours of Etienne Chevalier by Jean Fouquet
      14. The Morning After by Wilfrid Sheed
      15. Kennedy Justice by Victor S. Navasky
  8. [+]
    December 1971 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. The Editor's Page, pp. 4-5
    2. Reports & Comments by Arthur Koestler, pp. 6-25
    3. East Pakistan by Peter R. Kann and Lee Lescaze, pp. 26-39
    4. Innocent Bystander by L.E. Sissman, pp. 40-45
    5. The Mail, pp. 46-49
    6. Contributors, pp. 50-52
    7. In the City of Power, pp. 53-54
    8. The Education of a Senator by Flora Lewis, pp. 55-64
    9. Three Washington Stories by Ward Just, pp. 65-80
    10. On Satirizing Presidents---An Interview With Philip Roth by Alan Lelchuk, pp. 81-91
    11. American Christmas by John Fergus Ryan, pp. 92-93
    12. The Animals by Robley Wilson, Jr., p. 94
    13. Warning: The Chain Saw Cometh by Paul Brooks, pp. 95-100
    14. More About I.Q., pp. 101-113
    15. Georgia O'Keeffe at Eighty-Four by Leo Janos, pp. 114-117
    16. Give Me Back My Rags by Vasko Popa, pp. 118-121
    17. [+]
      The Fingerers Fingered by Jessica Mitford, pp. 122-125 - 1 Review
      1. Thirty Years of Treason by Eric Bentley
    18. [+]
      Over the Waves by Louis Kronenberger, pp. 126-129 - 1 Review
      1. The Sway of the Grand Saloon by John Malcolm Brinnin
    19. [+]
      Visions of the End by David Denby, pp. 130-132 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Last Picture Show (1971 Film) by Peter Bogdanovich
      2. The Last Movie (1971 Film) by Dennis Hopper
    20. [+]
      The Peripathetic Reviewer by Edward Weeks, pp. 133-134 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Winds of War by Herman Wouk
      2. The Wyeths by N.C. Wyeth and Betsy James Wyeth
      3. Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time by Louis Auchincloss
      4. The Night Country by Loren C. Eiseley
    21. [+]
      Short Reviews: Books by Phoebe Adams, pp. 135-140 - 13 Reviews
      1. In a Free State by V.S. Naipaul
      2. Bruegel by Max Seidel and Roger H. Marijnissen
      3. Cities in the Sea by Nicholas C. Flemming
      4. Fillets of Plaice by Gerald Durrell
      5. Academic Graffiti by W.H. Auden
      6. Body Time by Gay Gaer Luce
      7. Touch the Earth by T.C. McLuhan
      8. The Fourth World of the Hopis by Harold Courlander
      9. Tolstoy, My Father by Ilya Tolstoy
      10. Sliprock by Edward Abbey and Philip Hyde
      11. Dreams of a Young Girl by David Hamilton and Alain Robbe-Grillet
      12. The Cosmopolitan World Atlas
      13. Rabbit Redux by John Updike
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  Issues of 2007 = 9 Issues, 264 Articles
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