Word: eying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's fictional sense is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in fine focus in this novel about chicanery in high places...
Careless Reporting. For all his complaints, Krock has no intention of retiring from his longtime job of watching the world around him with a critical eye. He turned down all offers to organize farewell parties; he will keep his office in the Times bureau. And there he plans to continue with his two-finger typing. What he will produce, he says, is uncertain. For one thing, he has not made up his mind whether it is proper for him to write his memoirs. Besides, "I'm lazy as hell and have been all my life. I'm mentally...
...doctor arrived minutes later, at about 5:10 a.m. He found that Valerie had been stabbed six times around her nose and left eye, once in the neck, twice in the chest and twice in the stomach. There were four cone-shaped puncture wounds in her skull, all caused by heavy, bludgeon-like blows. Dr. Hohf slowly descended the circular staircase to the living room where Percy, Loraine, Sharon and Gail sat in wordless shock. Percy rose, and Hohf said: "Valerie is gone. She is dead...
...does Lady Bird's eye miss the capital slums. One project: the beautification of schools in the city's poorer districts. "Broken windows cost the District of Columbia $118,000 each year," she says. "I stood in front of a school one day and counted 26 broken windows on one side alone. But-and here is the magic-at the nine schools we have landscaped, the breakage has dropped to almost nothing...
...Ipcress File) Furie's oblique camera work, which teases the eye into viewing dangerously grinning Mexicans and other signs of violence from what seem to be safe, shadowy hiding places in the immediate vicinity. Unhappily, it proves to be a mirage effect that lures an audience on and on, through dusty mesas and vaporous characterizations, toward nothing in particular...