Word: looks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputations, but they are probably at legist as dangerous when they turn kingmaker. After the deaths of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, several of them rushed around trying to fit on someone a dubious glass slipper marked "Greatest Living American Novelist." As a result, some would-be Cinderellas look pinched before their time...
...same sort of thing is happening to Ross Macdonald, a mystery-story writer of the hard-boiled Southern California school. The Goodbye Look is his 20th book, and it is on bestseller lists -a place where hard-cover mysteries are not often found. In the past few years, critical opinion has been massing behind Macdonald to push him past Dashiell Hammett and especially Raymond Chandler, whose style and settings have clearly influenced him. William Goldman calls Macdonald's mysteries "the finest ever written by an American." Other critics number him among the important novelists of our time, full...
...thing is that Macdonald seems to have been listening. The Goodbye Look is overlong for its specious plot, weighted down with pompous prose about lost opportunities, missed communications, failed lives. As in several Macdonald mysteries, the story itself concerns a troubled youth-in this case, a rich college student who may have committed three murders, but because of head wounds and shock, cannot remember whether...
...Bertex Corporation has produced silk-screen processed clothing for two years. "A year ago, we were making shirts for a militant black group in Chicago with red fists and "Soul Brother" and "Soul Sisters" stencilled across them," Kaplan said. "All red fists look basically alike," he said...
Think of the benignly perplexed look in your father's tired, nine-to-five eyes when you told him over half-finished coffee and stale cigarettes that you couldn't become a doctor until you changed the world so that it was worthwhile to keep people alive...