Word: bondian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Bondian notions of espionage notwithstanding, secret agents generally avoid killing one another: it is considered a violation of the rules of the game and can lead to reprisals. Still, many West Europeans wondered last week whether the violent murder of so high-ranking a spook had not played a key role in persuading Mitterrand that it was time to send the Soviet officials packing...
Ruling out Bondian improbabilities, they settled on the adventure-serial structure. Cliffhangers usually came in twelve parts, and by a happy coincidence there are a dozen major menacing situations in Raiders. Each time there appears to be no way out for the hero, Indiana Jones (named after Lucas' beloved Malemute dog, whose "character" was previously borrowed for Star Wars' Wookie), or the heroine, Marion, a reincarnation of the "Hawksian woman," that sexy, spirited lady the late director Howard Hawks always included among the boys in his action films. At one juncture it appears that Marion, played...