Word: nichols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before these two adversaries--master fishing guide Nichol Dance and encroaching novice Tom Skelton--die their beautiful deaths, McGuane unfolds the recesses of Tom Skelton's psyche. Skelton is a modern Thoreau. A refugee from prolonged drug miasmas and the turbulence of modern society, Skelton has retreated to his hometown to slow down his pace of life and get back to the core of his being, allowing just the essential eccentricities. His Walden is the ocean surrounding Key West...
...Ninety-Two in the Shade, the joke is simpler and more deadly. After a wretched drug trip, young Tom Skelton goes home to Key West and decides to break in as a professional fishing guide. He copies the angling style of an old outlaw named Nichol Dance, who was run out of Kentucky for killing a man and who can tell where the permit will run long before the fish appear-at least when he is not too drunk to speak. One day he offers Skelton his bookings; he has killed another man, he claims, and will soon...
...major fears of our century, and had us feel his despair. And by being true to Vonnegut, George Roy Hill has produced a moving (if cerebrally uninteresting) film, which has less pretension and more honesty to it than such an adaptation of a much worthier book as Mike Nichol's film of Catch...
...author's theme is suitably antique: Will she or won't she? Marian is a spoiled, listless rich girl who has wandered home to Wales after a brief try at art school in London. Chandler, the man-about-London, is half-besotted with her. and Nichol, a student, is wholly so. Marian is indifferent and unassailable, the princess in the tower. Her petulance is enough to move the story forward, thereby allowing Jones to work at his real craft, which is observing people...
NCID members, mostly Democrats, include former Attorneys General Nichol??s Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark; former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford; former U.N. Ambassadors Charles W. Yost and Arthur Goldberg; and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes...