Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failed lovers enter first in a cautious story called "The Happiness of Others." Then Price has another try in a long rumination called "Waiting at Dachau." The story's psychologizing is murky, but it is less neat, less cautious; it will hold more emotion. Nevertheless, after a series of elegies for his parents and a dead friend that seem a bit too private for publication, Price returns to the parting of the lovers in a moody, troubled story, "Good and Bad Dreams," that is the best in the book. This time the lovers are husband and wife...
Some are already panicking. Freaks, radicals and striving novelists of yesteryear now talk about "Law School." Other speak vaguely of such things as "living off the land" or "starving in a garrett someplace in Europe" or "getting this really neat house in Chile" (wherever that is). And there are the one-liners about marriage, the ministry, revolution, and that old Harvard standard, suicide...
Rustic Trompe I'Oeil. The results of this technique, at least when Porter was painting, were fresh and simple, but they were marked with the authoritative vision of a minor master. With great tact, Porter blended Hawaiian volcanoes and exotic foliage with views of neat New England farms and valleys. The murals he painted in 1838 for Dr. Francis Howe in Westwood, Mass., are typical. Simple devices create perspective: the arc of a hill, an angled fence, the diminishing height of trees. The viewer feels that he has actually stepped into the landscape. Porter's murals customarily covered...
Darker Than Amber is not the best of the genre, but it provides some neat jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is murdered; McGee seeks revenge on the killers. There is no absurd jigsaw plot to unravel. Stories-and movies-like this rely mostly on atmosphere and characterization, two elements in reasonably plentiful supply in Darker Than Amber. Rod Taylor plays McGee as something a little bit more than the usual...
...trial, Flanagan had his shoulder-length hair shorn, donned a neat jacket and, unlike Abbie Hoffman and the rest of the Chicago Seven, behaved like a perfect young gentleman. It helped, of course, that the weight of the evidence showed that Elrod's neck had not been broken by a kick or bludgeoning. Witnesses testified that Elrod had been injured while trying to tackle Flanagan (TIME, June...