Word: tinkers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, le Carr...
Reading the book suggests that the system may work as advertised. The basketball player and what's-his-name unseal the reader's memory with a Tinker Toy assortment of mnemonic links and pegs. Assume, they say, that you want to memorize a random list of ten words: airplane, tree, envelope, earring, bucket, thing, basketball, salami, star, nose. Form a series of visual incongruities-a tree riding in an airplane, say, and then another picture of envelopes growing on trees, and another one in which millions of earrings fly out of the envelopes, and so on. The more...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carre...
...Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is one of the best tales of the year so far. But by le Carré's highest standards it is, as Evelyn Waugh remarked in another connection, simply "creamy English charm playing tigers...
FICTION 1- Watership Down, Adams (1 last week) 2-Jaws, Benchley (2) 3-The Fan Club, Wallace (3) 4-The Snare of the Hunter, MacInnes (4) 5-Cashelmara, Howatch (5) 6-Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Le Carré 7-Burr, Vidal (6) 8-The Other Side of Midnight, Sheldon (7) 9-You and Me, Babe, Barris (8) 10-The Partners, Auchincloss...