Word: parker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Silvia Castaeda Contreras, Barbara Collier, Kenneth Collura, Barbara Dudley Davis, Osmar Escalona, Dora Fairchild, Evelyn Hannon, Garry Hearne, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Kevin Kelly, Claire Knopf, Agustin Lamboy, Gyavira Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Peter K. Niceberg, Linda Parker, Maria A. Paul, Lois Rubenstein, Judy Sandra, Elyse Sloman, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss...
...anthologize portions of the film scripts, their scenarist responds, "If illiterates and rock fans (synonymous) can only be led to purchase my work by dangling before them the fact that I once worked for the Marx brothers, then let us find some other publisher." James Agee and Dorothy Parker were friends of Perelman's, but readers would never know it from his keyhole view of the beach house the two shared: "They both exist in a fog of crapulous laundry, stale cigarette smoke, and dirty dishes, sans furniture or cleanliness; one suspects they wet their beds...
...Robert B. Parker...
Like many a mystery writer, Robert B. Parker is a former college English teacher who yearns to be taken seriously for his literary credentials while still shadowboxing within the tough-guy genre. In his two most recent novels, A Catskill Eagle and Taming a Sea-Horse, Parker's private-eye hero Spenser embarked on studiedly medieval quests to rescue damsels in distress. Some fans admired the chivalric plots and illuminated prose; others, finding these adventures merely portentous, longed for a return to the snarly, wisecracking style of Parker's earlier books and the ABC-TV series spin-off, Spenser...
...narrative is a running comic diatribe against such targets as ignorant bartenders, hash-house cooking, thick-necked lawmen and macho, possessive Latin lovers. Most of the talk is badinage rather than wit, but it serves to deflate the pomp without completely devaluing the circumstance. Violence pervades the landscape, yet Parker always pauses to evoke compassion for the victims. And despite the ebullient entertainment, his purpose is as serious as ever: to remind readers that so-called victimless crimes generate huge amounts of cash, which can then be used to suborn -- and victimize -- the very political system that citizens rely...