Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Catastrophe pervades Percy's psychology. It takes an apocalyptic force to shake Lancelot out of a seven-year stupor in which his only pleasure in life was Raymond Chandler novels, and into a reevaluation of his quality of life (which moves him to such drastic action). Percy's characters often are alienated and then transformed by an experience which gives them a new perspective. He likes to describe this new ability to see the whole from a distance as a Martian perspective. Yet only after such an experience are Percy's characters capable of love, a principle solidified...
...forced smile flickered occasionally across the President's lean, aristocratic face as he spoke into the television cameras. "The people of France sent a message to those who govern you. I have received it." So saying, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ordered Premier Raymond Barre-who had resigned only an hour earlier-to form a new Cabinet. Giscard, who was on the defensive after his governing coalition's stunning defeat in last month's municipal elections, defined the goals for the government: 1) mapping the country's economic recovery and 2) charting a program...
...reshuffle as an empty gesture. Said Robert Fabre, head of the opposition Radicals: "A lot of noise for nothing. The absence of real change proves the incapacitated state in which the President of the republic finds himself." Quipped Socialist Claude Estier: "Giscard has made a big decision: he replaces Raymond Barre with Raymond Barre." Defending...
...begins with all the standard props of detective fiction, Thomas Berger's eighth novel is a spoof of whodunits only in the sense that Portnoy's Complaint was a redaction of Oedipus Rex. Berger's chief debt is not to the novels of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler but to the fiction of the '60s (including his own Little Big Man), written before black humor had been eclipsed by black studies. The convoluted and brazenly preposterous plot of Who Is Teddy Villanova? is simply Berger's excuse to practice verbal gunplay with a license...
...description, Raymond Chandler's sketch of a private eye is irresistible-the urban gunslinger with all the smarts. It makes a powerful myth. No matter how many Sunday-supplement articles report that a private detective is probably an ex-cop who guards industrial secrets, some romance still clings to him. Nicholas Pileggi, a New York-based investigative reporter, has written a book about one authentic private eye. It is a painstaking job, which makes it pleasant to report that while this trim detective has little chance to crack wise with classy dames, there are a few traces...