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...book are the Owners, cut off from themselves. Yet hope glimmers. Hooper's voyeuristic passion is transformed when he brings his nymphet back from the O-Zone and she proves intelligent and sensitive. Moura gets to unmask her stud, thereby changing loneliness into at least a healthy lust. Masks are also important to Theroux's satiric intentions. "You can get away with anything in a mask," says Hooper, as he watches a woman strutting in the latest fashion: a face covering, some chains, sandals and nothing else...
...trend toward lighter beverages seems on its face like healthy progress, in contrast to the heavy martini consumption of the 1950s and '60s. But some critics of the new, syrupy drinks believe that the beverages cloyingly mask their alcoholic content and thus their danger. Says Michael Vitucci, public relations counsel for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union: "In a sense, it is a wolf in sheep's clothing. People will feel it's like drinking lemonade." Seagram's Bronfman, of course, disagrees, "We make it crystal clear that these are alcoholic beverages and must be handled as such...
...little to do with Ambler's private life or his two marriages--he might have been a lifelong bachelor for all the discussion of his domestic affairs. It concerns his screen credits. In the front of this truncated autobiography, 18 novels are listed, along with 16 screenplays. From The Mask of Dimitrios and Journey into Fear to Dirty Story and The Levanter, the books form a distinguished line. Most of the films are extremely forgettable, and so are the adaptations of his work. But Ambler remembers them: "The Mask of Dimitrios had been made cheaply in standing sets...
...Black Mask's early contributors rejected the class-conscious plots and genteel style of the British school of crime writing. "Hammett gave murder back to the people who commit it," said Chandler, who found the details of British mysteries as unexciting as "spillikins in the parlor." Hammett's early hero, the Continental Op, is a nameless abstraction of the hard-boiled ethic: "I pass up about twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, like the work. And liking work makes you want to do it as well as you can." His connection...
...about a land scam in islands off the Mississippi coast." The detective story is one of the few fiction forms that deal directly with the seamier side of American life. To improvise on Mencken, himself an American institution no less secure than the one he launched with Black Mask, no one ever went broke overestimating the appetite for that...