Word: reflexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...
...REFLEX by Dick Francis...
Jockey Philip Nore, the narrator and protagonist of Reflex, is the most multi-faceted Franciscan hero to date. Though he is passionately devoted to his way of life, the spills and the thrills, he has become increasingly disillusioned with the cheating and corruption he perceives at all levels of the racing world. Nore is a lonely man, with a badly shriveled ego that even his occasional racetrack triumphs cannot plump out. He appears to have no real sense of his own identity...
Though the author generally writes more feelingly about horses than about women, in Reflex he snaps off a sophisticated lady who is both believable and likable. In Clare, a 22-year-old book editor, Nore finds "a feeling of continuity, of belonging." In addition, Clare helps him realize that he has a way with a shutter that is more distinctive by far than his hand with a whip. Lens sana in corpore sano. This is Francis' most complex novel to date. It proves that writers, unlike jockeys, can get better each time around. -By Michael Demarest
...Reflex, Francis...