Word: pulps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is one major difference between the elusive Andropov and Gorbachev. While KGB disinformers spread tantalizing tales about Andropov's taste for Scotch, Benny Goodman and Western pulp fiction, the former chief of the Soviet intelligence services remained the shadowy figure he had always been. Andropov, throughout his life, never traveled to the West and was seen only from afar at Kremlin ceremonies. Gorbachev, in contrast, is responsible for creating his own image abroad. He has what one Washington Kremlinologist calls "a real sense of public relations...
...secretly sires her son, she must pretend to be just a friend. To her young son Gordon (Patrick Wilcox), she acts like a jealous lover. And to her devoted friend Charlie (Edward Petherbridge), she finally plays the agreeable wife. A reverberant premise; the problem is in O'Neill's pulp-opera plot, especially the revelation of a hereditary curse that propels Nina into the noblest abortion and adultery on record. That earns a titter...
...novel set in a 14th century Italian abbey, it entertainingly combined detailed scholarship and philosophic inquiry with the pace and plot of a top-notch potboiler. A book that succeeded on many levels. The Name of the Rose earned itself a rightful place on widely disparate shelves, from the pulp-novel racks at the A & P to the syllabus for Professor David Herlihy's History 31, Medieval Europe...
...however, is not a pulp novelist but an intellectual by trade. A semiotics expert and James Joyce scholar at the University of Bologna, his Postscript to the Name of the Rose is largely a discussion of the thought he put into the first book...
...novels, Adam McMann (Tom Conti). He thinks she's a put-on or a practical joke. She thinks he is her fictional right-hand man Dimitri. Doubts begin springing up in McMann's mind after he and Ryan/Palmer are sniped at few times by an unknown assassin. The imitation pulp heroine thinks it's all part of a plot involving a prominent French politician (Giancarlo Grannini), who would just as soon have nothing to do with the loony American...