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* McGee is the creation of John D. MacDonald, author of over 50 novels as well as the twelve-volume Travis McGee series, who is one of the last-and best-practitioners of what used to be called the hard-boiled school of crime fiction.
Borsalino is a silly Gallic gangster flick that means no harm. It's good enough fun, in a kind of punch-drunk way, what with all its elaborate costumes, its opulent sets, its duke-outs, shootups and gang wars. But in their campy zeal to duplicate the hard-boiled...
The Tories maintained that if Britain wanted to retain its South African naval facilities as a counterweight to the growing Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, a resumption of arms sales was necessary. But the government failed to present its case convincingly to the Commonwealth, and a storm boiled up...
Prime Minister Harold Wilson had just finished talking about how the rest of the world envied the British "for our tolerance, for our individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on...
Criticism and anger directed at the men who guard the President's doors and carry out his orders are no novelty. "This is a problem that must have started with George Washington," says one Nixon man. "If everybody went in immediately whenever he needed something, the White House wouldn't...