Word: ems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gotta Have 'Em...
...ultimate evil conglomerate, or the prank of some zillionaires with a severe weird streak. In The Game anything is possible. But not everything is plausible. By the end, you must accept that dozens of people are willing to put Nick in jeopardy--and that other people, bless 'em, have a Job-like ability to be the butt of a cosmic joke...
...those who profit by it (like a man who runs a service of call girls cut to resemble movie starlets). Surprises and not so teensy-weensy ethical decisions are sprinkled throughout as we wonder whether Exley will fall into the warm goo of complicity with the rest of' em...
...needed persuading that demure Dorothy could be the heartbreaking Carmen. But there she stands, hands on svelte hips, unleashing a wonderfully womanly laugh and dazzling the hapless Joe (Harry Belafonte) by sitting down and slinging his leg over her shoulder or urging him to dry her toenails: "Blow on 'em, Sugar." Here was an adult sexuality Hollywood had rarely shown. It surfaces again in the French Tamango (1957), where Dandridge--as Aiche, the half-caste slave mistress of captain Curt Jurgens--summons a complex ferocity, connecting with Aiche's hurt as well as her love-hatred...
...item on Roberts and Dailey was condescending in the extreme and trivialized the matter of plagiarism. If this had involved two male writers of a male-oriented genre--say the shoot-'em, blow-'em-up, stab-'em-in-the-belly genre (and we all know how classy these books are)--you probably would have treated it seriously. As a novelist who has more than 25 million books in print in various genres, including historical romance, suspense, fantasy and science fiction, I feel qualified to state that those of us who write books for a living take the theft...