Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anyone who wears a safety pin in his cheek, which is just plain painful, for any amount of time. On the same track, people who only wear light jackets in freezing weather, supposedly because they believe them-selves to be weatherproof but mostly because they are trying to be cool (both physically and mentally), are also representative of this sort of affectedness...
First thought, on looking at the billboard: nice idea; angry, bustling little Danny DeVito and cool, self-ironical, hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger as twins. Should be funny...
...lines above come from four different novels by Raymond Chandler. Yet all of them seem to issue from our memories or dreams, or at least the ones in which we picture ourselves, alone in the office, dreaming of cool blonds and stiff whiskeys (or cool whiskey and stiff blonds). Raymond Chandler was ghostwriter to the sound track our lives so often imitate. The figure of the tough-but-tender hero cracking wise to cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed...
Hardly anyone denies the Stealth's appeal. Outwardly the B-2, as it has been designated, looks like something out of a science-fiction movie. Its sleek design and black exterior give it the look of a cool, efficient fighting machine. Developers claim the Stealth can fly at speeds upwards of 600 m.p.h. while remaining undetected by even the most advanced radar systems. Experts say that the Soviets won't be able to distinguish between the Stealth and two birds flying together...
...freeze-out, it is partly because he has been distracted by Fiona's replacement. Lovely Gloria also works at Secret Service (London Central), and is more than 20 years younger than Deighton's middle-aged hero. As in previous Deighton thrillers, the pace quickens once the cool atmospheres and the cast of characters are established. Curious Bernie learns he is being used, but the stronger his suspicions, the more forceful are his bosses' warnings to lay off. At one point, he is ordered across the Atlantic and the American continent for a brief, foreboding chat with an ex-colleague...