Word: chameleons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alone on the night of the accident. Unless, of course, it is true, as some insist, that he was accompanied by an attractive young television announcer. Several elements of the collision story obviously require further investigation; no one has been able to locate the milkman, the witnesses or the chameleon Citroën-Maserati-Peugeot. Meanwhile, the Elysée has firmly denied that any such accident took place...
...inside, Slocum is a boiling cauldron of some moon-pulled witch's brew. He knows only dimly of that "something" which makes him fearful, disgusting, and self-loathing. Superficially, he maintains a calm indifference and manipulative diplomacy. He is so much like a chameleon that he acquires the characteristics of persons he's dealing with, including a stutter. For Heller, he is the conglomerate image of corporate man in America, at once the symbol of upward and downward mobility. "I ascend," he says, "like a Condor, while falling to pieces...
...wonder if much is gained by introducing the new hero. A Dressing of Diamond is likely to send them figuratively off to Strasbourg to stone the author's house and shout, "Bring back Van der Valk!" The judgment may be a scrap premature. Freeling is not quite the chameleon poet of crime he thought he was, but he remains a writer worth waiting...
...most part seem, like most of us, to be more Rosovsky-type than Dunlop-type people. The U-Hall staff this year has been fairly low-key and relaxed, like Rosovsky; people who keep their jobs through the administrations of several bosses have to be somewhat chameleon like to survive...
...Riding Hood. As a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, The Salamander will be widely sold, but it reads like a mere shadow between West's conception and the inevitable movie. It is hard not to conclude that somewhere film technicians are already at work outfitting a chameleon with an asbestos costume. Paul Gray