Word: ambush
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...first chapter, in which he announces these prejudices, makes good reading. Here Geismar says some bitingly accurate things about James--things which most of us, at one time or another, have wanted to hear. He begins his literary ambush with the declaration that this "writer was not a major writer at all--.. he is a major entertainer..." He notes that Jame's vision of sex was essentially voyeuristic..., in this esoteric Jamesian universe--a literary world that was comprised of one-half of the upper one per cent of the human race at best; and one-quarter of their emotions...
...down in Australia, the world's reigning tennis champions are preparing an ambush for the invading Americans. Roy Emerson, no long stale, and Ken Fletcher, no longer inexperienced, are backed up by Fred Stolle, whose flame-thrower serve took him to the Wimbledon final against McKinley In addition, there is talk of reactivating Neale Fraser, whose canny court sense helped Australia hold the Davis Cup for five years Fraser is still only 29, and he held every major tennis title at some time before retiring early last year...
...bodies riddled with holes; a tractor with numerous bullet holes; a magazine from an automatic weapon; a lever handle from a grenade; ... a pool of blood where one man allegedly had been shot, leaving part of his brain; tracks leading from the direction of the Jordan River to the ambush position and the tracks returning in the direction of the Jordan River...
Beach Party is an anthropological documentary with songs. Robert Cummings, in ambush behind a wind-Schwepped beard, is gathering material for a book on teen-age sex play. Just outside his window at Balboa Beach, the puberty rites and other coming-of-age-in-California shenanigans of a tribe of overripe adolescents are in full cry, and Cummings' telescope and electronic eavesdropping rig provide him with an eye-opening earful...
...carried bundles of civilian clothes (including a coat bearing the label of a Seoul tailor), faked South Korean identity cards, rations for 15 days and $4,000 in U.S. money. Obviously, they had intended to infiltrate South Korea, but why had they jeopardized their mission by the ambush of the U.S. Jeep? Likeliest explanation: they thought they had been spotted by a U.S. patrol and had therefore opened fire...