Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this detracts from Chandler's ability to separate the amateur from the prose. Modern Russian literature is supposed to have tumbled from Gogol's overcoat; the American detective - from Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer to Gordon Parks' Shaft - enters in Philip Marlowe's trench coat. Even Dashiell Hammett's earlier fictions have not been so pervasive - largely, as Chandler noted, because "his writing has no echo and no tone." Chandler's does. The shady poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding cake"), his metaphors...
When the Class of 1971 were freshmen in the fall of 1967, they still had to wear coats and ties to all meals and sign all female visitors in and out of their dormitories. By the time they graduated, the coat and tie and parietal regulations had been abolished, University Hall had been occupied and the University had been closed by a strike. And Harvard and Yale had played the spectacular 29-29 game...
...launches into an abusive harangue, the arctic blasts keep blowing, and the room grows tense. A woman breaks down. It is Wendy, yesterday's enlightenment-seeker with no problems. Hefty housewife now has her coat over her head and is bouncing in her chair. Finally she pops, moaning, screaming and shaking violently. Ron says: "How old are you now? And where are you? Don't think, just look." The woman says she is ten years old and with her parents. She screams that her mother hates her, always has, because she's jealous of her father...
...that on the way home, Seventh Avenue smelled of clover. A hefty housewife, who is wearing a heavy sweater over a wool dress, asks if the air conditioners could be turned off. Ron says "the temperature will be what it will be," but she is allowed to fetch her coat...
...waiting 20 minutes in the freezing cold," complained one woman. Reagan pointed to his wristwatch to indicate he was running late?but he actually was on schedule. In his chartered yellow Hughes Airwest DC-9 (nicknamed the Big Banana), he rarely loosens his necktie or takes off his suit coat...