Word: trails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jungles, in tunnels, ghosting around in the pre-dawn: killer shadows. They dissolved by day into the villages, into the other Vietnamese. They maddened the Americans with the mystery of who they were--the unseen man who shot from the tree line, or laid a wire across the trail with a Claymore mine at the other end, the mama-san who did the wash, the child concealing a grenade...
Newcomer Stoltz bursts through the constraints of the film's perpetually lefthanded direction with a charm and bravado that Bogdanovich would be wise to emulate. Stoltz's Rocky meanders through his teenage life unblemished by bitterness and remorse, leaving a trail of warmth and good cheer in his wake. Whether he's conning his friends out of valuable baseball cards in order to complete a series of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, dreaming about biking through Europe on a Harley after graduation, fantasizing about what it's like to have a girlfriend, he gallops his way into our hearts. Although...
...Swiss authorities claim to have found the trail of the elusive Turk while pursuing a routine heroin investigation. In a secret international arrest warrant issued through Interpol, the international police organization, Swiss magistrates have charged Celik with running a small-time heroin ring between Istanbul and the Swiss city of Basel...
...politics; Cohen, 44, has two volumes of nonfiction and one of poetry), and they stuck to an outline jotted down on the back of an envelope at the outset. The result, to be published in May, is The Double Man, a Washington potboiler about a U.S. Senator on a trail of international intrigue. "It was a novel approach to bipartisanship," cracks Cohen. If only the Government ran so smoothly...
...Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just as they are about to kill the black robes of Ihonatiria. Parkman...