Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commits suicide rather than yield the numbers of the secret accounts he has opened. Now only one person in the world knows how to retrieve the hidden $350 million: the banker's great-grandson Thomas. The eleven-year-old chess prodigy has memorized the long list of digits. A brilliant homosexual SS officer sets out in pursuit of the money...
When I last looked out over the control panels of the Boeing 707, as we were ascending after a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, the sky had been a brilliant blue, with the first orange and green streaks of dawn. Now nothing was visible through the windshield but a swirling mass of gray...
...suppurating surface, this writer, Philip Marlow, is as racked and brilliant as the man who created him. Marlow, who relishes the cheap irony that his name echoes that of Raymond Chandler's famed sleuth, is a failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs...
Professor of English and Folklore Joseph Harris says Mitchell's commentary on Horn is "a brilliant piece of literary detective work." Mitchell's insight, says Harris, showed that when Horn wrote her story, she structured it with certain Biblical passages, and in so doing unwittingly wrote the first Swedish novel...
...simile, the perfect device for describing a world in which everything is like something else, and nothing is itself. And the unrelenting sun of California only intensified the shadiness. By the end of his career, in fact, Chandler was pulling off a series of bitter twists and brilliant turns on the paradoxes of illusion: the prim secretary from Manhattan is, in truth, from Manhattan, Kans., and turns out to be a tight little chiseler, while the movie-star vamp has a fugitive innocence the more theatrical for being real. Chandler's greatest technical flaw -- his way, ironically, with plots -- arose...