Word: see
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easily amused. I can see that...
...Yeah. Well, I see a lot of manuscripts written by people who are hilariously inept with literary devices, because they try so hard...
...More's the pity. I see that you write many unkind things about well-known personalities -- Nixon, Carter, Reagan, especially Geraldo Rivera. Why do you keep picking on Geraldo...
...same reason, basically, that you step on cockroaches. Geraldo is so self-righteous. If he would just say, "You know what? We're going to have a neat show today, and maybe you'll get to see a woman's breasts." But instead, he says, "We're going to talk about this cult that stabbed the kids and cut the kids' noses off, and you'll get to actually see a picture of it. It will be really neat." Geraldo has that certain je ne sais quoi. For want of a better word, I would call him a jerk...
These days, the Soviet Union and its capital evoke less mystery and fewer perturbations than they did eight years ago. Gorbachev and glasnost have helped see to that. But Smith's formula for success ought to remain valid if a suitable substitution can be found for step 3. In Polar Star, Smith finds it. One dead body leads to others, along an arc of increasing menace and violence. Arkady Renko, the intrepid police investigator of Gorky Park, reappears, again called to rescue a situation that shadowy, powerful forces may not want to be saved...