Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet so slippery we can't stop our crazy progression from clue to clue, is an icy cynicism. The detective's ultimate values are never really cynical--if they were he'd be the criminal and not the detective, whether he's Margaret Rutherford playing Agatha Christie's insufferable Miss Marples or Alec Guinness playing Chesterton's quaint Father Brown or Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade explaining, after Miles Archer's murder, that you have a duty to your partner...
...Crimson attack has also been hurt by the loss of sabre man Steve Hobbs to colitie. Marion said yesterday. "We'll miss his spirit; he really helped the team...
Both Embree and Stones started off the evening with the bar at 6 ft. 8in. A miss by Stones at 6 ft. 10 in. proved to be the margin of victory for Embree, despite the fact that both jumpers cleared...
...exception of Edmund Wilson, was so persuasive in coaxing readers to rush out and buy the book he himself had just read. But while Wilson made his readers feel it was their duty as civilized men, Connolly made any recommendation look like a pleasure no hedonist could afford to miss...
...happiest when left alone to write and complains that success can be lethal. "People always want to collect you for cocktail parties and take you to bed," she says. They have also inundated her with letters spelling out ultimate secrets. Notes Jong: "The whole thing makes me feel like Miss Lonelyhearts in Nathanael West's novella." A self-styled feminist, she recalls the day a high school boy asked her if she wanted to "grow up and be a secretary." Actually she always wanted to be a writer. Deeply affected by the suicide of her friend Anne Sexton, Jong...