Word: secretion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FICTION 1. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2 last week...
...secret that Thailand has both permitted and encouraged a large U.S. military presence within its borders, but the Thais have been extremely skittish about publicly acknowledging their role. Last week they finally loosened up a bit in what may be the beginning of an open admission that Thailand is deeply involved in the struggle for Southeast
...after the agreement, the old man is invaded by sheer panic: "She'll use us, she'll make use of us, I can tell you! I can smell it!" Yet will she? Vivien Merchant ends her evocatively feminine performance with the elusive hint of a smile. The secret is as safe with her as with Mona Lisa...
...close to the traditional fixture of fiction -the sense of time and region. In Albert Camus' The Renegade, his great moral force triumphs over impressionistic style. But Stories and Texts for Nothing, III, Samuel Beckett's abstract exercise in vocalized nihilism, is a dud. So also is Secret Room, by France's modish Alain Robbe-Grillet, a montage of quasi-photographic fragments that is merely abstract and fatally a bore...
...critical one. The consumer and the product have unusual characteristics Nobody is a "regular" consumer the way a person may regularly gamble, drink, or take dope. (A woman may repeatedly need the services of an abortionist, but each occasion is once-for-all.) The consumers are more secret about dealing with this black market, secret among intimate friends and relations, than are the consumers of most banned commodities. It is a dirty business, and too many of the customers die; and while organized crime might drastically reduce fatalities, it may be afraid of getting involved with anything that kills...