Word: guys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF GUY DE MAUPASSANT (1,339) pp.)-Hanover House...
...Guy de Maupassant had an eye for life as clear and wary as that of a Norman peasant eating the good side of a wormy apple. De Maupassant was proud as a boy of his feats of strength, he grew up to be an industrious lover of women, and he died, a syphilitic madman, at the age of 43. He was a great writer...
...teller Gooding peers up through his oversized periscope and discourses on the hazards of his job. "Women are always a problem," he notes while tapping the little metal basket that rides up and down with its cargo of currency. He thumbs through a pile of tens and remembers, "some guy this morning deposited three letters. I told him this wasn't a mail...
...upset him deeply (he has, in fact, become temporarily impotent), so naturally he Wants to Write. His methods are interesting. He takes a $14,000 stake to a desert gambling resort called Desert D'Or, 200 miles from Hollywood-a suburb in the literary country of tough-guy nihilism mapped by James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. O'Shaugnessy does not get around to writing but he meets 1) a real lulu named Lulu who helps him over his embarrassing bedroom block; 2) a misunderstood film genius called Charles Francis Eitel (symbolically pronounced "eye-TELL...
...police, after an hour of questions, released him. Said the sergeant afterwards. "He looked like a good guy...