Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Higgins writes conversation better than he does anything else.. Descriptive sections of Eddie Coyle still his best book, could never stun readers the way the dialogue does. Even at its most clumsy Higgins's descriptive prose still serves as respite and counterpoint, amplifying the impact of his characters' talk...
The investigations of the U.S. intelligence community are gradually moving ahead. Every week a presidential panel hears secret testimony about the Central Intelligence Agency's domestic activities. That probe was scheduled to conclude April 4, but the commission's chairman, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, said last week that...
Like a strobe light on someone dancing, the flashbacks present a jerky stop-and-start picture: there is Sam's wife, who hears the mouth-breathing of people sleeping and feels the eyes in the dark of the sleeping hall and can't make love: his daughter, who has adapted...
In a nation so big that, in European terms, its politics are not those of a country but of a continent, most politicians become knowledgeable in the competing pressures of society, and learn to mediate among them (that is their real specialty). Ella Grasso, the new Governor of Connecticut, says...
Music is everywhere: at the fun fair, at the camp, where Jim meets a seedy group of touring rockers. When he goes home and tries settling in, he still reads the music papers and drops down to the local dance hall, where he hears in the music the possibility of...