Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This diplomacy of imagery lets the world slip even closer to nuclear disaster. America and the Soviets converse in an odious geopolitical dialogue--where the language is arms sales and the conversation is in the small (though growing larger) battles between our surrogates. Or the words are sometimes spoken with domestic arms build-ups like the one signaled by the President's first budget. This unnecessary hardware not only hurts our troubled economy, it also begs to be used--the most harrowing possibility of all. Direct negotiations between the superpowers for arms limitation and, eventually, disarmament, and mutual attempts...
...enlists a couple of readers: an unnamed male addressed only as "you" and a charming novel addict named Ludmilla, also known as the Other Reader. In the course of tracking down clues, the readers interview a senescent professor, an editor of a publishing house who talks like a rejection slip and a confirmed nonreader who glues books shut and applies a coat of varnish, thereupon producing pop sculptures...
...Mits. A renegade biker leads Travis to a drugged producer filming balloon races. On location, he narrowly escapes a mob attack on the crew-seems the technicians had been using local teenagers for a series of porno video tapes. Predictably, their leader, a villain named Dirty Bob, manages to slip through some elaborate defenses and tracks McGee to his opulent houseboat, the Busted Flush. The result is one of MacDonald's King Kong vs. Godzilla confrontations that deliver a soul-satisfying amalgam of mayhem and justice...
...goes for ten or fifteen minutes. Total strangers confronting total strangers, making nervous small talk with artificial poise, watching through narrow eyes for the wrong color of socks, a grammatical slip or affectation, a pun or wisecrack in questionable taste. Then...
...stop dead in its lycanthropic tracks while a man turns oh-so-slowly into a werewolf-twice. Though The Howling is doing big business with the women-in-jeopardy crowd, it will add no luster to its makers' reputations. Mark this one off as a Sayles slip...