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	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect That Shaped ...
		Locusts in their early wingless stages (nymphs) were driven into pits and buried.
		Locusts are grasshoppers that occur in dense migrating swarms.
		It appeared that the locust species that threatened the western states of the US with famine was truly extinct, and not through any deliberate control measures taken by man. There has been no shortage of theories, from poisoning by alfalfa to ecological changes caused by the extermination of the bison.
	www.powells.com /review/2005_01_16 (1700 words)

	The Day of the Locust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust is by consensus the great Hollywood novel, a poison-pen letter aimed squarely at the tinsel heart of the movie biz.
		As the great Hollywood novel (at least there's no convincing competitor), it was inevitable that "Day of the Locust" would hit the screen eventually.
		The Day of the Locusts is by all means a stunning Hollywood anti-hollywood movie, sick in parts and thoroughly chaotic, it contains some scene stealing performances, raw madness and ultimately the disastrous other side to the glamour and glitz, Burn Hollywood Burn.
	www.httrader.com /The_Day_Locust-B0001WTUE4.html (1270 words)

	DVD Authority - Printable DVD Review of The Day of the Locust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before his days of being the eighties idiot in almost all movies, William Atherton seemed to be locked in the seventies to the role of the boy that meets the girl but turns out to be too overwhelming for the girl and the boy will do anything he can to make her his.
		Paramount gives The Day of the Locust is given the first wide anamorphic treatment in 1.85:1 and the results make for a beautiful transfer with a bit of cloudiness and a speckle or two during scenes.
		The Day of the Locust joins a great many other titles from this studio that gets released amongst the latter of the 1 in every 80 getting the special treatment despite a very good transfer and a possible discovery amongst the "in-the-middle titles of the seventies gaining availability on DVD.
	www.dvdauthority.com /print_friendly.asp?reviewid=3882 (907 words)

	The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
		The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West
		Especially I was impressed by the pathological crowd at the premiere, the character and handling of the aspirant actress and the uncanny medieval feeling of some of the Hollywood background set off by those vividly drawn grotesque.
		On page 128 of the Signet Classic Edition of The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West describes the piles of sets, flats and props abandoned in the center of a field behind the movie studio.
	ks.essortment.com /nathanielwestd_rqnj.htm (529 words)

	The Day of the Locust
		Based on Nathanael West`s satirical novel, John Schlesinger`s THE DAY OF THE LOCUST is an absorbing look at the desperate characters who populate the Hollywood film industry.
		I definitely could not bring myself to say that about The Day of the Locust, which is a massive artistic achievement, which speaks the truth, and speaks it directly to the heart.
		The Day of the Locust is inherently ambitious, and that is commendable regardless of how effective the final piece is. It is fortunate that all the artistic elements combined so seemlessly and movingly.
	dvd24x7.com /b-day-locust (1820 words)

	THIS ESSAY APPEARED IN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Day of the Locust is an elaborate nest of movies, an intricate presentation of almost everything that moviegoers of the late l930s would have found quite comforting and familiar.
		The Day of the Locust, on such a boundary between the novel and the media, reflects just such a change in verbal and visual art, and in the history of the relationship between literature and mass culture it is an extremely important text.
		Some elements of The Day of the Locust remain unaccounted for in this account of West's montage technique, and perhaps the most important is the mix of elements at the very end of the novel, the riot, Tod's image of the fire, and the siren.
	cla.calpoly.edu /%7Ersimon/Hum410/SimonDayEssay.htm (7882 words)

	The Day of the Locust
		Nathanael West wrote the novel version of The Day of the Locust in 1939.
		He died in an auto accident in 1940, about a year after The Day of the Locust was published.
		The Day of the Locust (1975) -- Unlike Scoopy, I had not read the novel this was based on, and was, in fact, expecting a "nature run amuck" horror film.
	www.scoopy.com /dayofthelocust.htm (2112 words)

	The Grotesque Landscape in Nathanael West
		The Grotesque Landscape in Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust
		With this statement, Clark pinpoints the central thrust of The Day of the Locust, which remains one of the most condemning and apocalyptic satires of Hollywood and its metaphoric analogue, the American people.
		Powered by these dreadful elements of the grotesque, Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust stands as one of the finest postmodern critiques of the dream culture that pervades the infamous movie capital of the world.
	summarjd.home.mindspring.com /bio/west.htm (2126 words)

	The Day of the Locust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Day of the Locust is a 1939 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have effectively failed.
		The Day of the Locust was adapted for the screen in 1975 by legendary screenwriter Waldo Salt and director John Schlesinger.
		Donald Sutherland, who plays Homer Simpson, later made a guest appearance on an episode of The Simpsons.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Day_of_the_Locust (167 words)

	Bob Dylan: Day of the Locusts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yeah, the locusts sang and they were singing for me.
		Oh, the locusts sang such a sweet melody.
		And the locusts sang and they were singing for me.
	www.bobdylan.com /songs/locusts.html (282 words)

	Nathanael West Literary Traveler
		While many closely associate The Day of the Locust with California in general and Hollywood in particular, West was neither a native of the region nor claimed the Golden State as home for very long.
		Revealing its Dadaist and Surrealist influences, particularly montage schemes, Day of the Locust rejoices in convoluted imagery.
		The Hollywood backlot of Day of the Locust has given way in the postwar era to urban monstrosity, lined by an ever-expanding orthodoxy of freeways, stripmalls, and megastores.
	www.literarytraveler.com /spring/west/nwest.htm (1712 words)

	Day in Life of Commercial, Day of Reckoning, Day of Guns Tiger Mann Mystery, Day of Locust, Day of Scorpion (Raj ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Day in Life of Commercial, Day of Reckoning, Day of Guns Tiger Mann Mystery, Day of Locust, Day of Scorpion (Raj Quartet, Day One, Day Richmond Died
		The Day of the Locust West, Nathanael (with a new introduction by Budd Schulberg).
		The Day of the Scorpion (Raj Quartet Ser., Vol.
	www.johnmarston.com /000164.htm (674 words)

	The Day of the Locust Summary & Essays - Nathanael West
		The Day of the Locust Summary & Essays - Nathanael West
		Tell a friend about The Day of the Locust eNotes with summary, essays, analysis, and more.
		The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West, is set in 1930s Hollywood and follows the lives of a handful of people peripherally associated with the movie industry.
	www.enotes.com /day-locust (256 words)

	SparkNotes: The Day of the Locust: Context
		It was at this time that West wrote The Day of the Locust, which would be published in 1939.
		The Day of the Locust is regarded as West's masterpiece, and still stands as one of the best novels written about the early years of Hollywood.
		The obscene, garish landscapes of The Day of the Locust gain added force in light of the fact that the remainder of the country was living in drab poverty at the time.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/locust/context.html (689 words)

	The Day of the Locust Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Yet for all the film's flaws, The Day of the Locust is oddly compelling, an ambitious failure that exposes the seamy underside of the city known as the Dream Factory.
		Graced with Oscar-nominated cinematography by Conrad Hall (American Beauty), The Day of the Locust portrays the unsettling experiences of West's Yale-educated, blue-blood protagonist Todd Hackett (William Atherton) in the wilds of Hollywood.
		Along with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon and Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run, The Day of the Locust is generally regarded as one of the great Hollywood novels.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=3956 (983 words)

	IOL: Cyprus sets 10-day deadline in locust war
		Huge swarms of locusts reached western parts of Cyprus early this week for the first time in living memory.
		Agriculture ministry director Antonis Constantinou said the locusts had not reached the full stage of maturity to start laying eggs, a prospect that must be avoided.
		Experts believe the locusts were carried to Cyprus on warm sirocco winds blowing in from northern Africa, suffering its worst infestation for over a decade.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=qw1099666260177B251 (315 words)

	Related Website - Day of the Locust, The (1975) - Donald Sutherland Biography and Filmography
		Day of the Locust, The (1975) - Donald Sutherland Biography and Filmography
		Day of the Locust, The (1975) - Donald Sutherland Biography and Filmography Posters's
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	Unlimited DVD Rental - Rent Day Of The Locust on DVD today
		Starring Donald Sutherland as the estranged and deeply religious Homer Simpson, The Day Of The Locust delves into the murky underbelly of the glamorous lifestyle of pre-war Hollywood, telling the story of a young actress and her attempts to become a movie star.
		The ferocious and tragic climax of the film, where crowds of people are made to look like a plague of locusts clambering across each other with insect-like intensity, is both enthralling and disturbing.
		The Day of the Locust is a scathing and unrepentant film with superbly acted performances and a compelling message at its core.
	www.1dvd.co.uk /movie/8725.html (323 words)

	ttgapers.com store - Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - Product Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Day of the Locust (1939) is West's great dystopian Hollywood novel based on his experiences at the seedy fringes of the movie industry.
		There is a line in The Day of the Locust: "The Sun is a joke." This two story collection is no joke though.
		The Day of the Locust though is West's searing expression of the lie of the California Golden Good Life, that attracted the industrial stunk multitudes from the greased, tenament East, what with Sun and Oranges flowing and inspiring stardom and attainable beauty.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0811202151.html (1619 words)

	The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic) - Nathanael West
		"The Day of the Locust" is one of the best novels about the early years Hollywood, when everyone thought it was easy to be a star -- not that nowadays this has changed, but today's starlets don't have the ingenuity that people had by that time.
		When it was published, "The Day of the Locust" was little noticed and was considered of `bad taste' by many critics.
		The set of characters of "The Day of the Locust" borderlines the surreal and even, the grotesque.
	www.cdswap.ws /Content/findonamazonus-Asin-0451523482.html (821 words)

	Books \| The day of the locust
		The dogged parasitism of the incompetent translator Fauzi rings just as true as the manic joy of Hamid the plant protection officer, whose untapped military potential is delightfully evident when he announces how he'll deal with locusts from a spray-gun on his jeep: "I shall slaughter them as they fly across from Chad.
		Of course the daily papers and TV networks can tell us what was really exterminated in Darfur, and it wasn't locusts.
		But Falla's novel tells us the same story in a way that we'll still remember when the camera crews depart and the starving Sudanese become, yet again, invisible statistics.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5156024-99930,00.html (813 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Day of the Locust
		But no matter how well he nails the difficult moods and attitudes, The Day of the Locust is too calculated and cold to be broadly accepted as entertainment.
		The Day of the Locust is beautifully acted.
		The Day of the Locust winds up in a terrifying Grauman's premiere that goes completely nuts with a convincingly chaotic riot, where an announcer whips up the crowd because he thinks they're excited about a stupid show called The Buccaneer.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1256locu.html (1686 words)

	Fathers' Day at Locust Grove (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Fathers and their children are invited to participate in the telling of an African American folk story with Hands On Theater, Inc. in the Visitors' Center.
		Admission rates for this special father's day are $3 for children 6-12 years old, $4 for children 13 years and up, with 5 years and under admitted free.
		Locust Grove is open from 1:30 - 4:30 pm with the last tour at 3:30 pm.
	www.ka.net /lghh/fathersday.html (199 words)

	The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West - Penguin Group (USA)
		The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare.
		An unforgettable portrayal of a world that mocks the real and rewards the sham, turns its back on love to plunge into empty sex, and breeds a savage violence that is its own undoing, this novel stands as a classic indictment of all that is most extravagant and uncontrolled in American life.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0451523482,00.html (88 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Day of the Locust
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Magnificent production, combined with excellent casting and direction, make The Day of the Locust as fine a film (in a professional sense) as the basic material lets it be.
		The Day of the Locust puts its focus on the loser, the never-was and the never-will-be.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117790269 (270 words)

	0416
		A day finally arrived when men from Illinois arrived to close the West Coast office down...
		the following day Tead, wearing a hip fl turtleneck and tinted glasses to the funeral, bought 7-up and vodka on the company's account.
		Moths circled a lightbulb during his maudlin farewell speech and then, as if exhibiting some flea-corral synchronicity principle, a fly began orbiting his head in the opposite direction.
	acmenov.tripod.com /0416.html (723 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West, reviewed by Powells.com
		The running undercurrent of violence culminates in the last scene, which closes with one of the most perfect last sentences I have read in a novel.
		The Day of the Locust is generally considered the better work (perhaps in part because West had more room in which to work, as Miss Lonelyhearts is only fifty-eight pages long).
		It is an unrelenting portrait of those on the edges of Hollywood, the scene technicians and failing actresses, the motel rooms, boredom, and heat.
	www.powells.com /review/2004_07_24.html (521 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Day of the Locust (1975)
		With Day of the Locust, Schlesinger did not so much bite the hand that fed him as chew on it unhappily.
		A tale of the losers and chancers rattling around Hollywood's fringe, the film fatally lacks the fl humour and nightmarish edge of Nathanael West's source novel.
		But there are some good elements swarming through the muddle, not least the performances from Karen Black as a lowly starlet and Donald Sutherland as the emotional wreck who falls under her spell.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Film/Film/gallery/image/0,8545,-10604720067,00.html (80 words)

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