Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Portrait of a Lady. Her technique may seem feverish but it is calculated to give the novel its unique quality-a blend of literary invention and the sort of lurid stories found on the "freak-death" pages of big-city newspapers. Her ear for contemporary speech rhythms, her eye for the incriminating details rank with those of William Gaddis in J.R. But it is Didion's romantic imagination of disaster that puts innocence and corruption on their inevitable collision course. There is, after all, some Charlotte Douglas lurking in most of us. How often have we felt vaguely paralyzed...
BLYE, PRIVATE EYE by NICHOLAS PILEGGl...
...description, Raymond Chandler's sketch of a private eye is irresistible-the urban gunslinger with all the smarts. It makes a powerful myth. No matter how many Sunday-supplement articles report that a private detective is probably an ex-cop who guards industrial secrets, some romance still clings to him. Nicholas Pileggi, a New York-based investigative reporter, has written a book about one authentic private eye. It is a painstaking job, which makes it pleasant to report that while this trim detective has little chance to crack wise with classy dames, there are a few traces...
...behind the family shirt shop right across from the old Lindy's on Broadway, the surprisingly likable Blye is full of pungent city speech. Though he works fifteen hours a day for his $50,000 income, he loves his work as few men do. Consequently, Blye, Private Eye is that most mesmerizing of pastimes: inspired shoptalk...
...conned, harassed, rolled, clumsily kidnaped, chased across the landscape, and jailed by a redneck sheriff. His putative protector in San Francisco, ripely played by Jackie Gleason, is in fact a devious executive who covets the conglomerate for himself. Gleason dispatches Valerie Perrine, as an implausible private eye, to wangle power of attorney out of Hill, but instead, of course, she falls in love with...