Word: stout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great events; even wars are kept to the background: "I write with the usual air raid going on; distant droning; a bomb now and then...
...Tinker, Tailor opens, the head of intelligence, known only as Control (Alexander Knox), determines that one of his subordinates has an open line to Moscow. But which one? Enter the redoubtable George Smiley, brought out of retirement. The counterspy is an unlikely hero. He is middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole. Yet as Alec Guinness plays him, Smiley seems wholly real, a man who has walked through a maze of distorting mirrors for so long that...
...Room last week. He was there to answer a subcommittee's questions about whether he, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, and his aides had properly handled their investigation of Billy Carter's dealings with Libya. In six hours of skilled testimony, Civiletti made a stout defense. Said he: "I am both comfortable with and proud of the conduct of the department in this matter...
...gotten a weapon, a stout handle with a piece of jagged, rusted metal still attached to one end, by jumping the fence into a restricted area and taking it from behind a tool shed. From the power plant I stole a short length of steel pipe and from the kitchen a table knife. I sharpened the table knife on cement, the way I had a similar one at Danbury when I learned from the authorities that an informer had told the FBI there was a contract out on me and I declined official protection in favor of my own method...