Word: exoticisms
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Their partnership began by accident. Sussman paid an unusual Saturday visit to the office last June 17 after learning that five men had been arrested that morning while breaking into Democratic headquarters. He borrowed Bernstein from the Virginia desk to check the five suspects and called in Woodward for help...
Offbeat automobiles of assorted vintages and makes are in greater demand than ever. Such serious collectors of classic cars as Los Angeles Times Publisher Otis Chandler Jr. are still very much in the market. Many others have discovered that luxury cars, particularly the more exotic models of Rolls-Royce, can...
With virtually no plot line, these characters must carry the burden of Wilson's meaning, again more succinctly stated by Saroyan: "No foundation. All the way down the line." The same might be said for much of Wilson's play; it is most fascinating as a symptom. Why...
That tarnished incisor was the herald of a literary revolution: the precise, unexpected, vivifying detail added to the general statement, which was to be the mark of serious fiction for the next century. While Flaubert was reveling in the exotic surroundings, he was mulling over a novel about life back...
The Wages of Fear. French, yet a surprising commercial success in the U.S. (both with sub-titles and in a dubbed version). Henri-Georges Clouzot wrote and directed this tragedy of Latin truckers working in a South American town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental...