Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That love was not universal. Only a changed America could drive the Temple from the money changers, but even in the '30s a bulbous misanthrope named W. C. Fields declared that "no man who hates small dogs and children can be all bad." Fields had a following that identified...
John Cassavetes plays Guy as much too blah a character to have done what the script says he did, and Ralph Bellamy behind a full grey beard seems hardly sinister enough to be Dr. Sapirstein, the occultivated obstetrician. These minor lapses, though, do not seriously affect the bewitching qualities of...
In her first novel, she operates good-naturedly in the postanalysis, guilt-free era. God is not only dead, there never was a birth announcement. The book is a catchy packaging job of the familiar semi-exaggerations about how the super-rich and super-famous flit mindlessly from pleasure to...
What is least important about this small, fierce novel is that it is a brilliant stunt-a male author staying undetected, for the length of a book, in the mind of a female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse...
In Cohn's view McCarthy was more sinned against than sinning. "It's grisly," McCarthy whimpers to Cohn in one passage. "They're yelling at the cop who got the goods on the murderer. They don't give a damn about the murder-they only want...