Flatiron Dust Storm: Picnic & Storm Center (1955-1956)

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1956 is the year after V. begins. Anything, anything? 

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On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:

> William Inge (b. Independence, Kansas, 1913-1973) , novelist and
> playwrite won a Pulitzer prize for "Picnic" in 1953. Part of a book
> entitled, Four Plays and was published together by Random House n
> 1959. The book included Come Back Little Sheba ,Picnic, Bus Stop and
> The Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Inge was called "the Playwrite of
> the Midwest." The popular film version, "Picnic", starred William
> Holden and Kim Novak in 1955.
> 
> http://foodinthearts.blogspot.com/2010/02/arts-and-picnic.html
> 
> In 1953, Inge received a Pulitzer Prize for Picnic, a play based on
> women he had known as a small child:
> 
> When I was a boy in Kansas, my mother had a boarding house. There were
> three women school teachers living in the house. I was four years old,
> and they were nice to me. I liked them. I saw their attempts, and,
> even as a child, I sensed every woman’s failure. I began to sense the
> sorrow and the emptiness in their lives, and it touched me.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Inge
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_(play)
> 
> http://www.kansaspress.ku.edu/voslif.html
> 
> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> At the Wiki They wonder:
>> 
>> Is there any reason, other than a typo, that the film in "Bleeding
>> Edge" is said to have come out in 1956?
>> 
>> Please take another look at this Flatiron Painting:
>> 
>> http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/21.41.2
>> 
>> 
>> I don't know, but....Pynchon is into the movies in a Big way, and he
>> digs into the labor struggles, the studio strife, the Big Business
>> Giants and the Independents....the Blacklisting and Turings and
>> Testifyings and Technologies...and so on and, as in VL, his film
>> choices are not simple throw away, red herring, but thematic. In this
>> case, I suspect that P is pointing us to Columbia and Phoenix, to
>> Picnic (1955), sure, but to Storm Center (1956).
>> 
>> So the dates? Just me? Making paranoid plots plot? Well...trust and
>> honor make the hawala work. Lack of it puts people out of work.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Center
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