Word: plump
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere that broadens their appeal and propels them up the bestseller lists. Funeral in Berlin, if not quite of the master class, is plausible and pleasant. Its special quality is an ironic humor in the midst of triple treachery. Its plot is of more-than-Byzantine intricacy, with a plump and devious British agent, a German Jew masquerading as an ex-Nazi, a Soviet colonel masquerading as a defector, and a smashingly sexy American girl who turns out to be an Israeli agent. The backgrounds, chiefly Berlin and London, are deftly convincing; the derring-do is deadpan and understated...
...lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith of his infelicitous wife Felicity with a meat cleaver; and there is plump, blonde Jenny, who in her lifetime was known as a "hoor" among the townsfolk and who still plies her trade among the restless spirits. The novel is hardly more substantial...
...some real scouting around for points. Neville Hayes, Tony Fingleton, Bob Corris, Jim Seubold, and the Crimson wrecking crew are looking toward the Princeton meet in February, and won't be stopped by Dartmouth. Unless Coach Bill Brooks does a lot of experimenting, the score will be pleasingly plump...
...What the shrewd King and his crafty sage Cardinal Richelieu lived with has for years been tucked away in dark corners of French provincial manor houses. Tastemongers used to consider Louis XIII too ponderous by comparison to the more delicate, later Louisiana that most people are afraid to plump down on. But no longer, for a revival of Louis XIII antiques has tripled their prices in the past five years; they are now the freshest item on the French market. Scarce, perhaps, but a perfect Treize chair runs to $2,000, compared with the $5,500 that a great Quinze...
...pretensions of the Soviet space program, gripe a little at the "administrative fools" who run the labs they work in. And pipe this. The women wear false eyelashes in bed. Karl Marx wrote an awful lot of words. It seems that now by eating them ihe Russians may get plump...