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...Adapted from a claptrap novel by Britain's James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond), who once confessed cribbing from U.S. hard-boiled fiction, the picture outraged London (TIME, May 10, 1948). Censors howled that it was brutal, sadistic, sensual; critics slammed it as "a piece of nauseating muck...
Three Ribbons. At midweek Ike had finished his report. He bundled his wife Mamie and his mother-in-law Mrs. Doud (who had joined him at West Point) into his Constellation and flew to Washington in muck and driving sleet,* landed at the National Airport and saluted the extraordinary committee of welcome-shivering generals, ambassadors, members of the Cabinet-and the President of the U.S., who wrung his hand and led him to his limousine, shooing off photographers with the anxious comment, "We can't give this fellow pneumonia." President and general drove off to the White House...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
...Goes Donald. The agreement made, MacLean marched off with his Spaniards to ravage his ancient enemies, the MacDonalds, on the islands of Rum, Eigg, Canna and Muck. When he returned, the Spaniard announced that he was ready to set sail...
...Cannibal" is an intense book and a confusing one; Hawkes is not afraid of alienating his reader. It also wallows around in the muck of the human unconscious, or maybe more accurately, in what Jung called the "racial unconscious." Its wallowing is effective...