Word: patriotically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jack Crowley, a spokesman for the DEA, told the Quincy-Patriot Ledger yesterday that "the U.S. attorney felt what went on here was so outrageous that the additional suit should be brought...
...political bite, as recorded in a piece from the late '60s (Patriot's Parade, Lyndon Johnson with a skull inside his hat and a flower- bearing demonstrator under his enormous cowboy boot), it is cliche and does not rank with Robert Crumb or Ralph Steadman, let alone Daumier. Twenty years later, even these small fangs are gone. His work gums its subjects, rolls on its back and waggles its paws in its demotic eagerness to be liked. If this is the Whitney's notion of satire, no wonder it shelved its plans for a Keinholz installation last year...
Unfortunately, this tourist-brochure fantasy is only the beginning of Patriot Games, a novel that performs the odd trick of growing exponentially less interesting with the turning of each page. Ryan returns to the U.S. and resumes his old humdrum life, teaching history at the Naval Academy, with the added burden of playing a sitting duck. For it is only a matter of time -- oodles of time -- until the U.L.A. "bad guys" attempt to punish Ryan for thwarting their plans in London...
...plot can seem plausible. Clancy occasionally hits his old stride ("Pellets fired from a shotgun disperse radially at a rate of one inch per yard of linear travel"), but this time out he concentrates on his human characters, a subject apparently beyond the range of his research. Patriot Games is a minefield of unintended comedy. When, for instance, the Princess announces that she is two months pregnant, Ryan knows just what the etiquette of the situation demands. He turns to the Prince and says...
...Songlines is a captivating journey into Australia, the past and the imagination. -- A formula falters in Patriot Games...