Word: dust
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bruccoli's own research reveals that estimates of O'Hara's work ranged from raves to pans throughout his long career. If a conspiracy was afoot, it was singularly anarchic. What is worse, the unfriendly reviews that Bruccoli quotes are invariably more persuasive than his own dust-jacket gushings about works that are "superb," "brilliant," "powerful" and "extraordinary...
...eastern Turkish village of Lice, a single, slender minaret rose above the dust-clogged rubble. From the stony ridges above the village ran huge, pale, vertical scars gouged out by boulders dislodged during the earthquake that devastated Lice (pronounced lee-juh) earlier this month. Seismologists say the quake measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, just below the "severe" level in scientific terms (TIME cover, Sept...
...side of today's schizophrenic auto market. Recession or no, sales of big luxury cars are booming; Cadillac's $12,479 "international size" Seville helped carry total Cadillac sales to an alltime monthly record of 25,000 cars in July. But standard-sized cars are gathering dust on dealer lots, because the swing of more budget-conscious buyers to smaller, lighter models that are stingier on gas is developing more quickly than Detroit had expected. This year for the first time, small cars have captured more than 50% of the market...
Style and hemline are more pertinent than they should be to Farewell, My Lovely because Director Dick Richards (Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins) seems mostly interested in matters of decoration. No use telling him or Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman that just under his plots, Chandler was writing about Los Angeles, about levels of corruption, about resistance to the hard sell and the strong arm. Those are difficult matters to deal with, and Richards and Goodman avoid them. Goodman wrests a standard mystery plot from the book that Chandler considered his best. Richards uses it as an excuse...
...good to know all about the wayward economics of big business that caused the Depression, and about the NRA, unemployment curves, the deprivations of the Dust Bowl and Social Security. But what about the time Huey Long met Ina Ray Hutton? Moments like this-of which there are many in Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?-may not change history, but they can bring it close as no transcript or statistic can. It is the unproclaimed thesis of this breezy, weightless chronicle of the Depression that time is the sum of events great and small, and that the footnotes...