Word: murk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This much and a good deal more is brilliant. Too bad such books need a plot, because mood and murk are what they're about. But they do, and what Noon comes up with, no surprise, is a Quest. Worked with Orpheus and Eurydice-why not? Scribble tries to retrieve his incestuously beloved kid sister Desdemona from one of those alternate worlds, with scenic but otherwise dim results. Vurt is a good try at great nonsense, and if someone doesn't use it as the basis for Son of Blade Runner, Hollywood isn't paying attention...
Chan regrets the situation: "The video rights are handled by Golden Harvest, the distribution company I work for. They don't really concentrate on videos in America." But even in this video murk, Chan's personality shines through. He has a star quality that doesn't get lost in translation...
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLÄo restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...
...furniture of novel writing clutters chapters that might otherwise explain what happened. It is simply irritating, for a reader trying to understand the murk of the Suez crisis, to be patronized by docudrama as characters dash on- and offstage costumed as a paratrooper, a general, an intelligence operative, their wives and mistresses, and so on. Or, to take the contrary view, it is emotionally unsatisfying to read endless stuff about John Foster Dulles and Suez when what you want is the paratrooper and the lady in intimate clutch...
...homeless man of a murder charge. Why would this fellow have shot a well-dressed yuppie in a phone booth? Then, just when Scudder has discovered that the natty corpse had a lot of enemies, the homeless man is stabbed to death in prison. What's happening? The murk deepens enough to involve moral ambiguities for Scudder before he works out the answers...