Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dunked his hands into a toilet to foil any testing for traces of explosives, a prosecutor charged at his arraignment. The other, Mohammed A. Salameh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan, had rented the van that apparently carried the bomb into the Trade Center garage. In a scene that no thriller novelist would dare dream up, Salameh was arrested as he tried to get his $400 rental deposit back...
Jones' musical accomplishments are diverse. Though his initial love was for be-bop, he played with big-bands, and has worked with the likes of Frank Sinatra ("I've Got You Under My Skin,") pop-star Leslie Gore ("It's My Party,") and Michael Jackson ("Thriller" and other albums...
...analysis throughout. The second half of the novel takes the form of a protracted car chase, fleeing from the forces of darkness, a desperate race against time. The narrative remains gripping and well written at all times, but the basic plot of this sequence could be from any stock thriller...
...perplexing flashback structure, flattens it out and fattens it up, mostly by creating a new character, a waitress (Nancy Travis) who falls in love with Jeff. Graff changes the theme: now knowledge is just a cue for righteous revenge. The Dutch movie had no gun; in a Hollywood thriller there must be a gun, and it will go off. The original's ending was misanthropic, claustrophobic -- a fellow in a tight spot with no way out but death. Graff provides a rousingly standard climax, putting the heroine at mortal risk in an old dark house and then letting her triumph...
...Three composers of the ragtime era, but there were a host of others, many of them (yes!) women. Twelve are represented on FLUFFY RUFFLE GIRLS, an irresistible CD by pianist Virginia Eskin (Northeastern). May Aufderheide, probably the best known of the dozen, showed with infectious rags like The Thriller! that she could crack knuckles with the big boys. Also noteworthy are two elegiac rags by the contemporary composer Judith Lang Zaimont, which prove there's life in the old genre yet. Eskin captures all the insouciant charm of the country's first great popular music, and firmly observes Joplin...