Word: lastditch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what the protagonist in Ira Levin's new thriller, Deathtrap, decides to do and, not so coincidentally, it is what Ira Levin, a successful novelist (Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil) who hasn't had a Broadway hit in over a decade has done. Deathtrap economically combines two lastditch themes: the playwright-trying-to-write-a-play theme, which sets up worlds-within-worlds and all that twaddle, and the who-can-double-cross-whom-faster theme, the new nadir of the mystery genre, where all guns are filled with blanks, corpses fall to be later resurrected and everyone...
Gibson said the present suit is a "lastditch effort" to postpone the tax, but he would not speculate on its chances for success...
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