Word: flawless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sleuth. A sophisticated and flawless murder mystery...
...flawless picture: the tall, pants-suited woman, attractive in the years before middle age, her hair dyed black, her husky voice speaking well-chosen, mature words. The apartment bright with Florida sun and four children, and comfortable with the acquisitions of tasteful travelers: an inlaid bone chess table from Pakistan, tiny prints from Arabia, a brass samovar from Teheran. She has worked as a nurse and now attends college for a nursing degree; she goes to occasional cocktail parties...
...Arthur Clarke's space odyssey 2001, the most intriguing character is not flesh and blood but an extraordinary computer called HAL (for Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer). Amazingly lifelike, HAL speaks with flawless diction, calmly disposes of almost any problem and-when it turns "psychotic"-does the same to most of the human crew. Could Clarke's fantasy also be prophecy? Perhaps. In a chilling augury of the cybernetic future, scientists at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have now created a computer that in some ways approaches HAL's versatility. In at least one vital respect...
When she gulls his simple human sympathy, then extorts a groveling apology the wrench of comic truth lies even in the last unconscious gesture with which Dandin the peasant, stumbling away, stubs out the candle in his barn with bare fingers. Hirsch's is a rare and flawless performance, a French tradition made...
Writing a flawless murder mystery for the stage is probably rarer than committing the perfect crime. Anthony Shaffer has done it in Sleuth. Shaffer, twin brother of Peter Shaffer (The Royal Hunt of the Sun), has written a thriller that is urbanely clever, unashamedly literate, clawingly tense and playfully savage. If it is not the best play of its genre ever, it is neck and neck with the best...