Word: hones
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JOSEPH HONE...
This stylish thriller is yet another stop on the Greene-Ambler-Deighton-LeCarre circuit. In his first novel, Dublin-born Joseph Hone follows the impeccable existentialist formula in which the spy is the victim, doomed to suffer betrayals and failures as remote as the stars from his control...
...scene is a little clumsy for such an understated film. Swiss Director Alain Tanner also betrays an un fortunate tendency to hone a point or a joke until it loses its edge. In one se quence Rosemonde is shown at work, standing beside a machine that stuffs sausages inside skins with regular bursts of phallic efficiency. The image is funny and outrageous at first, but Tanner holds it longer to convey Rose monde's glazed boredom, then longer still, as if congratulating himself on his own cleverness...
...abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses . . ." That complaint got action. In fact, in an adversary proceeding that is the essence of democracy, every election poses a complaint and offers a remedy of sorts. This process of criticism is supposed to hone down, and largely has, those principles or procedures or institutions that have proved structurally sound, like towers that withstand the tempest, but need the remorseless shaping that criticism alone can provide...
...beat him like a tom-tom. I turned him every way but loose." That earned Trevino $300 and the chance to become a teaching pro at Horizon City. The salary?$30 a week?did not interest him, but the prospect of more "sociable games" and the opportunity to hone his game did. He accepted...