Word: macdonald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Blue Hammer, Macdonald...
...small force in mid-March. But Commodore Parker's larger supporting fleet was delayed for two months, partly because of bad winds. By the time the two joined in May, the main Loyalist forces in North Carolina, some 1,800 kilt-wearing Scots colonials led by Allan Macdonald, had been long since routed by Patriot militia in the battle of Moore's Creek. Disappointed, Clinton and Parker sailed south...
...Sleep. None of this detracts from Chandler's ability to separate the amateur from the prose. Modern Russian literature is supposed to have tumbled from Gogol's overcoat; the American detective - from Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer to Gordon Parks' Shaft - enters in Philip Marlowe's trench coat. Even Dashiell Hammett's earlier fictions have not been so pervasive - largely, as Chandler noted, because "his writing has no echo and no tone." Chandler's does. The shady poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding...
...tradition that was still in its infancy when Love Me Tonight was made. Rodgers and Hart, seemingly inexhaustibly prolific, wrote the marvelous score. You can see why Maurice Chevalier was so immensely popular; if anyone ever deserved the word 'infectious' to apply to their charm, it was he. Jeannette MacDonald's nightingale ambitions are only mildly offensive here, and there is a stretch in the picture when she's even sort of sexy--although she's nothing compared to the poutingly hungry, frustrated Myrna Loy who shows up like a surprise guest at a party...
Which he did, inducing, after a sacrifice bunt had moved Songin into scoring position with just one out, Kevin MacDonald to pop to short, and striking out Brian McCann to save the game for Clifford and the Crimson...