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...suppurating surface, this writer, Philip Marlow, is as racked and brilliant as the man who created him. Marlow, who relishes the cheap irony that his name echoes that of Raymond Chandler's famed sleuth, is a failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs...
...lines above come from four different novels by Raymond Chandler. Yet all of them seem to issue from our memories or dreams, or at least the ones in which we picture ourselves, alone in the office, dreaming of cool blonds and stiff whiskeys (or cool whiskey and stiff blonds). Raymond Chandler was ghostwriter to the sound track our lives so often imitate. The figure of the tough-but-tender hero cracking wise to cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed...
There is no mystery about the cause of the stepped-up slaughter. Says Raymond Kelly, an assistant chief of police in New York City: "We think the increase has a direct correlation with the use of crack," the cheap and readily available cocaine derivative. Kelly's figures show that the share of killings in New York that are drug-related has climbed steadily from about 25% in the early 1980s to almost 40% this year. The problem is double edged. On one hand, crack abusers frequently seem indifferent to the use of deadly force. On the other, the street-level...
...England Patriots are winning games without scoring a lot of points. They are avoiding penalties, however, a trend Coach Raymond Berry would like to see continued...
...Benjamin R. Miller '89 Features Editors: J. Carter Vincent '89 Hector I. Osorio '89 Editorial Editor: John J. Murphy '89 Photo Editor: Lynda Ruiz '91 Sports Editor: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Jennifer M. Frey '90 Julio R. Verela '90 Copy Editor: Michael Grunwald '92 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu...