Word: dime
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sante and Kenny Kimes are a walking, talking dime novel. This mother-and-son grifter team has conned, robbed and even enslaved. But the real problem, as an acquaintance observes, is that "the people they deal with keep coming up dead." The most famous of these may be Irene Silverman. This clunky but engrossing account of the Kimeses' relationship with the wealthy Manhattanite leaves us where the New York Police Department is now: with a seemingly notorious murder, but no body and only circumstantial evidence. Still, the book's catalog of doctored passports and errant blood drops shows why this...
Whether you're a fan of his work or consider him a little too gauche, you can't deny that Bill Gates likes to use broad brush strokes. Business @ the Speed of Thought is full of them: How he turned Microsoft around like a supertanker on a dime and pointed it toward the Internet in late 1995. How a plague of paper records at his Redmond, Wash., headquarters was all but eradicated under his guidance. And so on. But the boldest, broadest stroke of all is this: at a time when the Justice Department appears likely to pop the software...
...feels like a legal thriller: its plot line is melodramatic and painfully one-dimensional. The murder of Byrd is as horrific a crime as can be imagined--chaining a man to a truck and dragging him three miles until he dies of his injuries. And the protagonist is a dime-store white supremacist, spouting anti-black and anti-Semitic dogma and spewing hatred to the bitter end. Last week a Jasper jury tacked a Hollywood ending onto King's life story, convicting him of first-degree murder and sentencing him to death by lethal injection...
...funniest occurs roughly midway through the movie, at a point when Paul has just evaded an assassination attempt with aid from Jelly, ruining Ben's wedding at the same time (in a very subtle parody of The Godfather's baptism sequence). The ten minutes that follow contain dime-store Freudianisms turned on their heads, idiotically mushy dialogue, the only good line assigned to Ben's fiancee (Lisa Kudrow) in the entire film, and the bizarre sight of Robert De Niro emptying a machine-gun into an unoccupied sofa...
...such as Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon monologues for 75[cents] each. The opportunity to cherry-pick content and exchange small sums of money online will become more and more attractive, to both consumers and authors. (I would happily read my columns to you if I got, say, a dime a download...