Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with automatic dishwasher, garbage disposal and cabinets full of rum. Something eerie lurks behind the placidity of the 1950s setting and L.B. Jeffries is out to find it, binoculars in hand and his snooping mind alert. It is the year the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, made his voyeuristic thriller, "Rear Window...
...about a spy (Thierry Lhermitte) whose neglected wife (Miou-Miou) thinks he works for the phone company. In Cameron's version, Schwarzenegger is the secret agent, Jamie Lee Curtis is his wife -- and the sky is the limit. Cameron has taken another out-of-favor genre (the James Bond thriller), welded it to romantic comedy and upped the ante until the fates of a marriage, the world and a few A-list reputations dangle in the balance...
...About the time a viewer might be tempted to switch to a shopping channel, the anchors would go to a replay of the ceremonious delivery of the mysterious brown envelope, which contains either a knife or a red herring. It's as riveting as the MacGuffin in a Hitchcock thriller...
...Chamber has the pace and characters of a thriller, but little else to suggest that it was written by the glib and cheeky author of Grisham's legal entertainments. His tough first novel, the courtroom rouser A Time to Kill, is a closer match, but there Grisham played by the rules of melodrama: the hero won. Here the winner is something called process, the orderly, unemotional, bureaucratic march through the necessary steps before a convict may be poisoned by cyanide in Mississippi's gas chamber...
...read Crime and Punishment but"they read it more as a thriller," Pipes says.Some of those who had taken French had readMadame Bovary. But none of them had readDickens, Tolstoys, Salinger or Kafka, Pipes says...