Word: det
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration's dismay, Congress seems determined to make the trade bill that the White House plans to introduce some time in the next few weeks a major test of wills between Legislative and Executive Branches. The battle could cause some dangerous zigzags in the entire East-West det...
...famed "screen scene" fails to det onate with the explosive comic impact it should have, but the cast scores more than enough direct hits of laughter. Pat ty LuPone brings a peppery pique and a sweet contrition to Lady Teazle. As Joseph Surface, the false merchant of noble sentiments, David Ogden Stiers has the smarmy aplomb of a drawing-room lago and marks himself an actor to watch...
...detective who has made it through the police academy, even if on his father's name. But he is also a rending figure, a person lost in the murky realitics of city life and unfulfillment. His only fulfillment--the successful pursuit of The Stick and finding his "search object", Det. Butler--ends in disaster. A case is brought against him by the Department for Butler's death: and in the despondence of knowing he has failed, Bo hands himself in a jail cell. It is doubly ironic: a corrupt Department brings about the death of one of its few honest...
There are other weak links in Mills's tale, most notably Det. Butler. She is a gorgeous, ambitious and tough female cop who is just too surreal in her myriad attributes. Also, Mills employs an inter-Departmental report on the Lockley case as the vehicle for his story. He includes office memos, tapes interviews by the internal security office, and other "obtained" narratives such as a magazine article on Butler that never saw print. But despite his care in sticking to the format of a report, Mills slips into a trap posed by his own tight prose: no transcripts ever...
...clean his display board. Seeing his existence threatened by "little things-errors of judgment, but never crimes" -Bogus begins identifying with Akthelt, the heroic warrior and lover in Akthelt and Gunnel-an absurd Old Low Norse epic he is translating for his doctoral thesis. And when Akthelt is told "Det henskit of krig er tu overleve" ('The object of war is to survive it"), Trumper thinks: "Which struck me as the object of graduate school-and possibly my marriage...