Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Koko Dee do whatever they did last Monday, only crunchy, and Tuesday the Brattle Streetband performs humorous British Isles folk music. Wednesday, Jon McAuliffe "does a lot" with the "rasping, Dylan-quality in his voice" and a guitar--some reggae, too. In short, folk guitar tonight through Monday; other stuff Tuesday and Wednesday...
...Harvard University (undergraduate college) Ice Hockey Team is not in the playoffs. That's it. It's over. Turn your stuff in guys. Good season George, Billy, Brian, and all you other fellas. Maybe next year, huh Coach Cleary...
Crumbling Lodges. Everything from breweries to cement factories has broken down. The only coffee now available locally is imported stuff, most of it smuggled in from Kenya because the instant-coffee processing facilities in Uganda, like nearly all the factories, are closed for lack of spare parts or repair facilities for broken-down machinery...
...work, while at first glance the oddball team device looks to be striclty situation comedy. Something That Girl would have larked into, or just the thing for The Sandy Duncan Show (a sitcom that keeled over in its break from the starting gate). And indeed, stereotyped situation comedy stuff...
Still, for all its absurd complexities, Cussler's plot line is not what finally kills his book. Credible plots are not necessarily the stuff of which good mysteries are made; anyone who believes otherwise should take a long look at the marvelously improbable tales of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. What distinguishes Cussler's attempt from a genuinely good mystery a la Holmes or Poirot is the author's singular inability to create any distinctively human characters. Cussler's figures are worse than wooden: the neurotic physicist, dashing American agent, villainous Russian spy and confused but loving heroine...