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...with readers. Three-quarters of the way through, Narrator Archie realizes the identity of the criminal and concedes, "You probably knew a while back." He is, in his own term, "grandstanding"; even veteran aficionados will be hypnotized by this witty, complex mystery. For lagniappe, Stout provides a delicious red herring-the case's tenuous connection to Watergate. Says Wolfe: "I would have given all my orchids-well, most of them -to have [had] an effective hand in the disclosure of the malfeasance of Richard Nixon." He announces that he drafted but did not send a letter to Leon Jaworski...
...capital of the activity is Aberdeen, an outward-looking city of 180,000 long accustomed to foreigners through export of herring and skills, both engineering and nautical: Aberdonians officered much of the Russian navy in 18th century czarist times. But nothing in Aberdeen's gregarious history has quite prepared it for the influx of hundreds of oil-related companies (300 have operations there) and thousands of oil workers from around the world, mainly the U.S. Last week 20,000 oil people were in town, including 7,000 visitors from as far away as Houston and Tokyo, for "Offshore Europe...
...comes up again and again in criticisms of affirmative action, the popular image being one of women and minorities hired not for their qualifications but to fill government quotas. "Reverse discrimination is a bunch of malarkey," Leonard says. "There's no such thing. It's a myth, a red herring...
...suppose anyone would dispute the claim that The Towering Inferno is popular art, so I'll defend my assertion that it's good art as well. One red herring--the director. Irwin Allen--needs to be disposed of right away. Auteurist orthodoxy is so much a part of the serious movie-goer's mental baggage that the idea of a good film being produced by an awful director seems a contradiction in terms. And Allen has compounded the problem by acting like some Cahiers du Cinema reader's idea of a Big Bad Hollywood Producer. Allen told the august Arts...
Thirty-two FBI offices had helped unravel the crime. Ironically, it was the red-herring reference to the Weatherman that brought the FBI into the case at the outset. The alleged conspiracy sounds something like a Mannix plot on TV-with a few Fellini-esque wrinkles. According to the indictment, Moeller paid $50,000 in company funds to David Bubar, 47, a trim, wavy-haired Baptist minister and self-proclaimed clairvoyant from Memphis who purports to have foreseen a variety of specific deaths, illnesses and other disasters. Bubar met Moeller about ten years ago, became his spiritual guru and ultimately...