Word: boiledness
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From his beginnings as a writer, Cain was preoccupied with the common man. His characters were mostly poor workers or drifters who believed earnestly in the possibility of a better life, yet had no idea about where to find it. His earliest published fiction was in the form of brief...
Fans will still find enough vestiges of the former Reinhart: his sententious liberalism is undiminished; his antique Midwestern vocabulary ("hen fruit," "on the fritz") is intact; and if his optimism is a bit white at the temples, it still goads him on. But Reinhart ultimately comes to believe that life...
The contest was marked by surges by both teams, with momentum changing hands at the tip of the net. The outcome boiled down to the net. The outcome boiled down to the inexperience of a Harvard team that just this year acquired varsity status.
Which isn't to say we've been cheated by most of the so-called realistic movies of the past ten years--only coddled in a perverse way. The movies that would show us the seamy underside of America have usually spoken movingly in the vocabulary of a director's...
Hammett turned out a ton of these kinds of stories, before The Maltese Falcon was made into three different movie versions and made him famous. After that, he went out to Hollywood and lived the big life for a while, went broke, ran off to New York, lived in a...