Word: clicks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marianne's new style of freedom can't redefine the roles of women and men. She's happy, in a way, like a new bride entering a locked-up marriage of housework and kids and pain and a few hard fucks, so expectant that she never hears the door click shut. From any stultification, some discontent must grow...
...Slightest Distance is a first novel, and a good one. But Bromell should go on to do better work. As with many things that are apprehended "like that", that click in your mind, the book can be disappointing to analyze. It should be read through, one story at a time, when you feel drawn by its atmosphere of vague, reassuring calm. Bromell resolves the problems of experience, power and human relationships in suggestive ways, but both his statement and his resolution are limited. There is a gentility to the selection of people, places and sentiments that can make the book...
...eventually took Hancock around to play some ballads for Miles Davis. Recalls Hancock: "We didn't meet again until much later, when he telephoned to say he needed a piano player. He said, 'I want to hear you play,' and dropped the phone into the cradle. Click. I didn't even have his address." Hancock found it, soon was a member of Davis' band...
...Louis, a cold-blooded killer in the ring, was tied in knots by a one-and-a-half ounce golf ball sitting on the grass calmly waiting for him to hit it. Champion golfers have lost Opens because of the single click of a shutter. Ben Hogan, from the tougest parts of Texas, known as the Iceman for concentration that could shut out the world, jumped for his life while putting in one tournament. He had heard a movie camera start up while he drew his blade back and he thought it was a Lone Star rattler...
...Crimson Click...