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Caldwell acknowledges that the situation of twenty-five years ago has changed. "But each of my novels is contemporary for the year in which it is written. People themselves are softer now." Caldwell sees his job as a writer as making him into a sort of vocal mirror. "I just try to reflect life. I'm not trying to prove anything. A writer, though, does have to interpret, too. I try to do it, try to illuminate a little bit, enlighten." When looking for a character, he looks for the one thing which makes him different, the part...
...U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort of day. From the marble tomb of Lenin and Stalin, in the shadow of the Kremlin walls, traditionally comes a dictator's propaganda of arms and marching men-with a rattle of rockets in the background...
...with beautiful legs. (But he was convinced that her eyes turned inwards and her dog's eyes outwards.) "I flirted with her a long time, and we were in love," he says impishly, and just as impishly he put Leda and the Swan in the background. "He did sort of make love to me under the canvas," says Adele. "He would look at me and purr. But I was madly in love with Prince George [later the Duke of Kent]. And I didn't have cross-eyes...
...sort of rich man's Fu Manchu, Dr. No is one of the less forgettable characters in modern fiction. He is 6 ft. 6, and looks like "a giant venomous worm wrapped in grey tin-foil." For hands he has "articulated steel pincers," which he habitually taps against his contact lenses, making a "dull ting." Dr. No's hobby is torture ("I am interested in pain"). Bond survives Dr. No's inventive obstacle course from electric shocks to octopus hugs, buries his tormentor alive under a small mountain of guano, and rescues the girl from a fate...
...time you form an active unit of this sort, I should like to be considered for membership."--Herbert J. Redfern, Keene Teachers College, Keene, New Hampshire...