Volume 7, Number 10 · December 15, 1966
Buster Busted
By D.A.N. Jones
Keaton
by Rudi Blesh
Macmillan, 395 pp., $8.95
Skimming this large book, a casual reader may be daunted by the gasps of showbiz enthusiasm ('it was a glorious and preposterous hodgepodge with a happy madness all its own'), no less than by the more thoughtful efforts: 'This is more than visual semantics; it is graphic epistemology. It is also metamorphic magic.' Turning to the index, in search of a laugh, he may read this entry:
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