Word: godey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT is all but finished, and Ken Booth knows it. Vietnam, the draft, the '60s--they seem to have been forgotten. When Booth, the central figure in John Godey's novel The Talisman, and a few others who have stayed with the movement demonstrate at the White House, not even the FBI shows up to take their photographs. So Booth searches for another way to reach the public, another way for the movement to get the attention it needs. He decides they will steal the remains of the Unknown Soldier of World War II, as ransom...
...being unbelievable. The story itself is plausible, if only barely; the right combination of pumps and levers probably could raise the Unknown Soldier's coffin, and in any case, part of the fun with the book is in finding out how it is done. That was the case with Godey's earlier The Taking of Pelham One Two Three--how in the world, the reader wants to know, could a group of men kidnap a subway car in New York...
...bookcase full of historical and architectural volumes, Edwards has several issues of Godey's Ladies' Book with illustrations of clothing worn by Southern women during the Reconstruction era. "If I decide that Scarlett should have a new hat," she explained to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "I'll go to my Godey's and I'll be able to describe it." Other descriptions will come from the 250 photographs, arranged by city and subject, borrowed and photocopied from libraries and historical societies. For the travels of Scarlett and Rhett, she has assembled a chronological collection...
That brand of political repartee provides the breeziest moments in a featherweight thriller called The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, based on John Godey's best-selling novel, which was obviously written expressly as film fodder. Screenwriter Peter Stone (Charade) has grafted some reflexively cynical New York City comedy onto Godey's book. Most of the characters in the movie quite rightly have a hard time taking the hijacking seriously...
...takinng of Pelham One Two Three, Godey...