Word: sherlocking
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...muffed it. Too bad." Some are science fiction -- excursions out in the galactic void or deep within the vessels and sinews of the human body: " 'Watch what's coming.' All eyes turned ahead. A blue- green corpuscle was bumping along ahead of them." Some follow the adventures of Sherlock Holmes in outer space; some track the steps of Albert Einstein in his Princeton office: "He could not believe that the universe would be so entirely in the grip of chance. 'God may be subtle,' he once said. 'But he is not malicious...
...most stations). Step aside, Basil Rathbone; for fans of PBS's Mystery series, Jeremy Brett has become the definitive Sherlock. Here he re- solves one of Holmes' most famous cases...
...Humphrey Bogart -- was the quixotic figure of the gumshoe, Philip Marlowe, private eye and public conscience, sitting behind his pebbled-glass door with an office bottle and a solitary game of chess. What made Marlowe special was simply the fact that he was nothing special, no genius like Sherlock Holmes, no Connoisseur model like James Bond. Just an underpaid drudge with, as one mobster says, "no dough, no family, no prospects, no nothing" -- except a habit of making other people's worries his own, and a gift for walking in on corpses he knows just well enough to mourn...
...Sherlock Holmes once told Watson cryptically about the "giant rat of Sumatra." The terrible truth about the creature, Holmes said, is one "for which the world is not yet prepared." It was a lovely moment of conjuration: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle suddenly, out of nowhere, created the hairy monster, and just as suddenly he whisked it out of sight: the world was not yet prepared to confront the horror. So the giant rat lingers in the mind as an enigmatic apparition...
...successful here than he would ever be anywhere else." But though Superman lives in America (mainly), he is a hero all over the world. One admirer, Science-Fiction Writer Harlan Ellison, has estimated that there are only five fictional creations known in practically every part of the earth: Tarzan, Sherlock Holmes, Mickey Mouse, Robin Hood and Superman...