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...Sleep. None of this detracts from Chandler's ability to separate the amateur from the prose. Modern Russian literature is supposed to have tumbled from Gogol's overcoat; the American detective - from Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer to Gordon Parks' Shaft - enters in Philip Marlowe's trench coat. Even Dashiell Hammett's earlier fictions have not been so pervasive - largely, as Chandler noted, because "his writing has no echo and no tone." Chandler's does. The shady poetry of his similes ("I was as out of place as a tarantula on a wedding...
Students demonstrated their anger by staging a brief boycott of classes. Some 6,000 attended a protest rally sponsored by an organization called Students Helping Academic Freedom at Texas (SHAFT), chanting "Quit." "Quit...
...holding sessions that start at 9 in the morning and last until 10:30 p.m. Reardon described the meetings as a careful balancing of viewpoints on what will make the best class: "One thinks there aren't enough all-round kids, and another thinks musicians really get the shaft...
...watch 11,000 TV murders by the time he is 14. In Boston, a woman was doused with gasoline and set afire shortly after a TV movie featured a similar scene. In Chicago, several murders have followed in vivid detail some inventive killings in the TV detective series Shaft...
...Abandoned offices were transformed into junkyards of smashed typewriters and ransacked file cabinets. Even the bronze plaque with the names of the five American servicemen who died in the embassy during the 1968 Tet offensive was torn from the lobby wall. Marines hurled tear-gas grenades into the elevator shaft; at tunes the air was so thick with tear gas that the helicopter pilots on the roof were affected...