Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writer fond of doing the unexpected--previous works include A Clockwork Orange, a translation of Oedipus Rex and a sonata--Burgess strives for effect by interweaving the life of Freud, a sci-fi apocalypse, and Trotsky's visit to New York. Styles range from a libretto to a TV-play, at times in utter parody of themselves...
...inspired by Sands' play, the Eli then shifted his strategy his selfdirected cruelty to shots more dangerous to Sands. He became particularly fond of a frontcourt cross forehand drop that would roll immediately out of Sands' reach. His serve, though inconsistent, also plagued the recently unchallenged Crimson first seed. He got down in the third set early as Layendecker won, 6-4. And it was Sands who threw his racquet...
...than the left-and he has more to be philosophical about. Says he: "Last month I paid myself a salary of $10,500 and gave $4,400 to the government, and I don't think I got $4,400 worth of service for it. I'm not fond of a graduated income tax that penalizes me for doing what I do well. Also, I need the money, and I'd like to keep some...
...shots for the heroes and villains of Breaker Morant, hyperactive camerabatics to catch the footballers in The Club, and, to emphasize the lonely helplessness of Mac and his kind, a series of longshot landscapes that dwarf the actors. But with his jeweler's eye for casting and a fond patience with his actors, he allows every performance in Tender Mercies to shine through the visual clichés like the home truth in a country ballad...
...this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond of a fat, fast-talking actor named Willett. At a last dance high above the flooded streets of Manhattan, Brodie decides to go down with the earth: "Faces sweated in candleshine, bodies swung, turned, swayed ... To hell with that cold contrived...