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To one energetic writer, however, this has always seemed a woeful waste of criminal talent. For some three decades Donald E. Westlake has operated a kind of literary halfway house for the morally rotten, propping up an entire repertory company of safecrackers, bank robbers, funny-money artists and miscellaneous boodlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAUGHTY, BUT ALSO NICE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

According to Purnell, the leaders of AYSC are "very contented" with the organization's recent admission into the PBHA fold.

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Activist Groups Become PBHA Members | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

All else done, we would take the fancy headline type back to the wooden cases and carefully drop the letters into their compartments, thunk, thunk, thunk, a contented coda to Whitman's bawdy song. And finally we would turn the lights out and close the shop door, taking a last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHED AND PERISHED | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

The end of the essay arrives, of course, only after the author has proved the thesis. The purpose of the end in a perfect essay is not to continue the argument of the essay--in that case, the essay would not have ended. Nor is the purpose of the end...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: The Perfect Essay | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

But the next bit of news was significantly less welcome. Apparently, Sir Alec is not an entirely contented participant in the Star Wars, which was originally just a nutty sci-fi picture he agreed to work on because of his admiration for George Lucas, eclipsed the rest of his long...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Alive and Well | 2/22/1997 | See Source »

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