Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...readers with a short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...their disrespectful guests by diving from the kitchen with a pistol in each hand. The film doesn't take itself seriously at all, and the effect is delicious. The patrons of the restaurant are also heavily armed, and the ensuing shootout is a perfect satire of a mindless action movie...
...Response does not approach police or administration officials with information of the incidents disclosed to them. They also make a point of not "impressing any action" on students who call them first...
...will not encourage someone to take legal action if he or she does not want to," the Response member wrote. "We will tell the caller that if he or she might want to take legal action later, a rape kit could be very important now. We can explain the contents of a rape kit and what the process is like...
...great minds converge on New Orleans, watched over by an angel named Zack who spends most of his time complaining about the democratization and bureaucratization of heaven in somewhat misplaced digressions from the action of the novel. And here the plot gets entirely silly. Not only do spirits manage to communicate with mortals through their own private adult website, but complete absurdity ensues when the great minds are reincarnated in the bodies of the city's residents. At one point the spirit of Nicola Tesla "screws" itself into the skull of a wino "like a genie into a bottle...