Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Koestler's deadpan, newspaper style of writing, with its emphasis upon understatement, suggests impartiality and permits objective writing, as in the courtroom and 1939 riot chapters, to gain great emotional force and a continual atmosphere of tension. Unfortunately, Koestler's people disappear just as they begin to become interesting as individuals, but what they have to say and think is vivid and unmistakable. For "Thieves in the Night" is more than mere debate. It is essentially a remarkably exciting narrative presentation of a political philosophy on a high intellectual level that should have appeal for all readers, whether...
Nocturne (RKO Radio), featuring George Raft as a deadpan detective, gets by in a superB way, but it will add no gloss to Producer Joan Harrison's shiny reputation (Phantom Lady, Uncle Harry...
...July, 1945. The Russians (who got there first) had set it up in what were to become the American and British sectors as well as in their own. British military police were busy tearing down this and similar Russian signs in the British sector. The official explanation (given, deadpan, by a British Army Public Relations officer): "Conservation of lumber...
...skinny, deadpan Charley O'Rourke had helped him discover the pleasures and profits of a daring offense. With an alter ego like O'Rourke to run the team on the field, think for it in emergencies, maybe run and kick but certainly do the forward passing, Leahy could go on through life "playing" football, not just coaching. At Notre Dame, he searched until he found an O'Rourke. This one was named Angelo Bertelli. Then Leahy found a system to fit his man. It was the popular...
Kenneth Fearing's fiction has never had the kick of his verse; his first murder mystery, The Big Clock, has it-the deadpan, make-believe sinister quality, and the terse, preposterous fancy. It is, besides, a thriller with a unique plot...