Word: neatness
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Suffice it to say that one of the twins (the other?) turns out to be monstrously, homicidally evil, and that Tryon and Mulligan pull off a neat plot twist midway in the action. It's diverting enough, but still essentially a trick. What is badly needed is some reason for the twins' rampaging villainy, some suggestion of why they should be so keen on frightening old ladies to death and carrying human fingers around in a Prince Albert tobacco can. Instead, all we get is a sleight-of-hand...
...confessed that she let her husband think that he was hypnotizing her during the sexual act. Another said that she solved her daughter's marital problems by going to bed with her son-in-law. "That's a melter, Vicki," cooed Ballance. "I think that's neat." Not quite neat enough, however. Next day the daughter called in enraged. "Oh-oh," Ballance said. "And did your dad hear her on the air?" "He certainly did," said the daughter, "and so did his whole construction crew...
...this oppressively average day, hot for early April, the gentleman at the desk is heavy, sweaty, and uneasy in his neat suit with the shiny blue tie spelling his man's name in silver letters down his chest--all too predictable. He gives me literature, but has little...
Finally, after three years of frustrating negotiations, Iowa Governor Robert Ray cut through the red tape by devising a neat bureaucratic stroke of his own. In his capacity as commander in chief of the Iowa National Guard, Ray ordered all of its 95 aircraft and 1,625 motor vehicles indefinitely immobilized except in the event of a national emergency. "I am not satisfied," he said, "that what has happened to the Tjernagels and the McCarvilles could not happen to other lowans...
Earlier in the day I stood with the student coordinator of the McGovern campaign and looked at one of the small, white, neat neighborhoods of Manchester...