Word: raymonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attitudes toward the Head vary almost as greatly as the number of entries. "Schools who think they have a hot team take it fairly seriously," Radcliffe coach Peter Raymond said yesterday. But often the Head will be only a focus for a fall rowing program, or a reunion of old crew jocks...
...BEST Higgins writes books reminiscent of Raymond Chandler's; he has an ear for terse, unequivocal dialogue, and an equally sharp cynicism that cuts through the moral flab of his characters. But when his material is as worn-out as it is here, Higgins sounds more like Dragnet's Joe Friday, insisting monotonously, "Just the facts...
...lives in the sleazy tenderloin district in a fourth-floor walk-up apartment incongruously decorated with a chandelier, stained-glass windows and peacock feathers. He shares it with a merchant seaman. Sipple is known in San Francisco's large homosexual community, and two of its leaders, the Rev. Raymond Broshears and Harvey Milk, tried to make capital for the cause of the gay image out of Sipple's act. But Sipple refused to accept the role. He also gave high marks to the Secret Service: "Those guys did a terrific job. What more could they...
...series of revivals of older Altman movies. M*A*S*H is perhaps the funniest antiwar movie ever made, but you'll have to be on your toes if you want to catch all of the dialogue. Ditto with The Long Goodbye, where Altman sets a Raymond Chandler novel in present-day California. Elliot Gould is Phillip Marlowe, and he gives the best performance of his career. Watch him fool...
This is the sort of private-eye period piece that means to do honor to the traditions of Raymond Chandler and the hard-boiled melodrama. But through its own dim eagerness it ends up making a mockery of them. How can anyone take such an enterprise seriously, after all, when the detective runs around in a trench coat six inches too short and 25 years...