Word: intents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...novels done recently in the U.S.-that is, with Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Richard Bissell's 7½ Cents and Peter De Vries's Comfort Me with Apples. But Condon is something more. He is a comedian who throws his custard pies in black anger, with intent to maim. His novels resemble (more accurately, are resembled by) Heller's Catch-22; the difference being that Condon's work is wildly plotted and Heller's is wildly plotless. The reaction of Condon's readers is usually either disgust and incredulity or fanatical admiration...
...until she was 14. She had only a few hours of nightclub singing behind her when she was cast in a part on Broadway in last year's I Can Get It for You Wholesale. She stole the show with a number called Miss Marmelstein, and has been intent on musical comedy ever since. "I don't think about space and the nuclear thing," she says, starting off on another trip into the unknown. "I don't want to cut off the emotion because I just know the sensory things. I deal in the senses-know what...
Both Roche and Coffman's bids have come under heavy suspicion from city officials, mostly because they would not reveal their "clients." It has been suggested in several areas that the publicity attendant on Roche's bids made it worth his while to submit a bid regardless of intent...
...Well before his indictment, Bidwell had negotiated a settlement with the Internal Revenue Service under which he increased his 1956 and 1957 tax payments from $55,000 to $98,000. But the Government chose to prosecute him anyway on a charge of intent to defraud...
...book's weakness is its uncertainty of intent. Novelist Jones never seems to have made up his mind whether he was writing a fantasy or a piece of purely historical fiction. When the hero goes to the gallows, a reader can only wonder whether the eye of the Wise Man of Ty Cerrig sent him there-or circumstantial evidence and a bamboozled jury. In fact, The Walk Home is best read as a sort of historical travelogue rather than a novel. It tells a reader all he needs to know-or will want to-of a semibarbarous land...