Word: puzzlers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California's celebrated Proposition 13 has become a puzzler for the rest of the nation. Some observers see it as part of a conservative backlash against the welfare state. President Carter says it vindicates his populist view that ordinary folks are rising in wrath against the well-to-do and their three-martini lunches. At the Time Inc. tax conference, Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich, who conducts regular surveys for TIME, offered his findings...
Unfortunately, La Grande Bourgeoise blunts this irony by masking the precise extent of each family member's guilt. The criminal and sexual involvements, including possible incest, are indicated in fragmentary, sometimes confusing glimpses and teasing hints. In trying to be both a crime puzzler and a cutting social study, the film ends up not quite as either. Yet, thanks partly to the powerful lyricism of its imagery, it fails on a higher level than many a glib little movie succeeds...
This brings us back to that old puzzler, the "very difficult" problem of ethics. In the end that is what Wedding in Blood is all about. Audran and Piccolo are not just common lovers, they are the bourgeois world's version of Everywoman and Everyman. They are the passionate living in a passionless world. They want to be alive, to be rewarded, to be fulfilled--they want to be everything the great mass of desperates are not. Very difficult indeed. Certainly a problem that you can't run away from...
...James may be a monstrous forgery. Deviled by doubt, haunted by hope, he enters an investigation that un foldsas an absorbing theological thriller. So absorbing in fact that readers may wonder if there isn't a misprint on the title page. There isn't. This entertaining puzzler was actually produced by Irving Wallace...
...first puzzler we join Mr. Peabody and Sherman for a ride in the "Wayback Machine." The date: Jan. 1, 1951. The place: the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans...