Word: fineness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been doing for the past 15 or so years. Ever since Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), in this view, Le Carre has been unduly shifting emphasis from action to atmospherics; his espionage plots remained splendidly inventive, but they arrived splintered into ambiguities worthy of Henry James. Which was fine, maybe, for those who wanted their cold war shenanigans decked out in the trappings of The Golden Bowl. But what was wrong with the heart-stopping pace of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)? And will it ever come again...
...Chevrolet Celebrity, deadheading back to Boston from Logan Airport, is pulled over by a Boston policeman. The offense: an expired inspection sticker; the fine: $50. But not for a car bearing license plate STATE 1 that moments earlier had Massachusetts' favorite son riding in the rear passenger seat. A warning will...
...with a gun in the street, and he has come to call. He won't bother with the bell, though. He'll announce himself by shooting the front door full of holes. The guy with the gat is Roland Gift, lead singer of a nifty rock band called the Fine Young Cannibals, and movie star aborning. In that scene from Scandal, a just opened cinema chronicle of Britain's Profumo- Keeler scandal of the early '60s, Gift is doing onscreen the same sort of number he's been running on the music scene: making a little room for himself...
However he feels around cod, Gift has a smooth, soulful way around a tune. His voice sounded a little uncertain on a remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds, from the first Cannibals album, Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1985. The sensual assurance Gift acquired on The Raw & the Cooked may come from some special attention he has been lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like...
...depends on the fine print and on what becomes of our nuclear capability in the process. A parity of conventional forces has never meant peace in Europe...