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Kosinski is 46, and readers have a right to wonder whether his unparalleled ear for language and his eye for social nuance are to be used solely for elaborations of the same theme. For the past several books, Kosinski has been as aimless as his characters who believe that the going is the goal. That is not true for polo. It is even less so for novelists, even gifted ones. -Stefan Kanfer
...seems to promise drive and success and an end to the aimless drifting Carter pathetically describes. If the price for that is a man who may not be personally forthright and trustworthy, we are willing...
...action, as well as a lengthy musical score, sung by Sheila's rock group. There are even moments when Heflin starts to look like Shelley Duvall. But this time Altman's idiosyncratic devices are not organic to his material; he slaps them clumsily onto the film, like aimless graffiti doodled on a billboard...
...first, these elliptical discussions seem arch and aimless. But Gilliatt, a film critic for The New Yorker and the author of several brilliant short story collections and novels, subtly builds them to establish the existence of a singular bond between singular men. In time, Peregrine becomes a barrister and then a curmudgeonly journalist whose essays excoriate the modern world. Benedick becomes an electronic harpsichordist and marries a difficult woman named Joanna, who speaks eight or ten languages and runs what appears to be an armaments brokerage from a telex machine in their Wiltshire house. When Joanna restlessly and ruthlessly divorces...
...NOTEBOOK: The icemen travel to aimless Troy, N.Y., on Saturday for a game with the deceptively tough RPI Engineers. Led by all-ECAC goalie Ian Harrison, RPI has played last-minute spoiler for the Crimson's playoff hopes the last two seasons, sneaking in on both occasions with a strong final month...