Word: ops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority--into control of every major construction project in the city from the late 1920's to the early 1970s. He built highways, bridges, parks, housing, and a vast array of public edifices among them Lincoln Center, the United Nations. Shea Stadium, and Co-op City...
Time Inc. executives were satisfied that they had given the Star their "best shot," as Munro put it. The paper recruited top talent, including Denver Post Cartoonist Pat Oliphant and Washington Post Writer Judy Bachrach, added a second op-ed page and started a morning edition. National and international coverage -long a weak point-were bolstered with the worldwide resources of the Time-Life News Service. Five new community editions broadened the metropolitan coverage. Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing...
...consisted of three parts--anonvmity, morality and objectivity. None of them were quite what they seemed. A good detective had to be anonymous, but not only so he wouldn't be seen--the less personal information there was, the less anyone could hold against him. A Pinkerton operative, or "Op" as he was known, was identified by number, and his final report to his client was ofter rewritten by someone else entirely. Morality was similarly skewed. In simple terms, his job was to protect good people from bad people--but since he was devoted to tracking down those who didn...
...there in San Francisco that Hammett was forced to give up his detective work because of ill health. It was also there that he started working on his detective stories--the most famous of which, the Continental Op stories--were to make him a wealthy and famous man. The Continental Op, of course had all the qualities of a Great American Hero. He was cynical, callous, and streetwise. He was always making seedy jokes, but he harbored the heart of the romantic. Hammett's Op never had a name, but you could never forget the voice. In some ways...
...fiction filled a gap between the elegant puzzles of the Conan Doyle school and the dumb gore and violence of the pulp magazines. Typical Hammett detectives, like the Continental op and Sam Spade, got their hands dirty but kept their minds alert. They often found that those who had hired them were criminal or corrupt; they prowled, lonely paladins of justice, through stark landscapes of betrayal and greed. Hammett's stories paid the rent. His novels, especially The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Glass Key (1931), brought him an international reputation...