Word: hunching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Innocent Blood is James' so-called breakout novel. Her gloomy detective, Adam Dalgliesh, is absent, and the publishers have billed the book as "a major work of fiction." Commercially their hunch was right: Innocent Blood has been sold to the movies for $350,000, and the paperback rights went for $813,000. If it is not a thriller, neither is the new book a conventional novel; it depends solely on suspense for its sustained pace - and that is all to the good. The sad news is that the author has emphasized her real but riskier talent: writing about...
...chairwoman of the A.P.A.'s ethics committee, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, acknowledges that radio psychologists are technically in violation of the association's code, but she argues that the code should be bent to accommodate the new trend. Says she: "My hunch is that they will double or triple in number within the next year or two. We don't want them to say, 'Either I'm going to be a star or a member of the A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses...
With only a shriveled, frenzied mutterer at its core, this Lear lacks coherence. Nor does Chris Clemenson's Gloucester provide even a hunch-backed spine to this play. He is too fretful, laborious, lumbering. In past productions, Clemenson has used his expressive and modulated voice to define a character. Here however, the lighting often shields his face and his changes in tone seem unusually grating. Only after Gloucester's blinding does he add subtle vision to his performance, staggering to the edge of the Dover cliffs and pitching forward to a living death...
Professors say, "We need tenure because we are dangerous to society." The officers of the Association of University Professors have assumed that no one will speak up unless his or her job is secure. My own hunch would be that no one who puts much stock in job security is likely to speak up under any circumstances...