Word: tuned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Name players--Palmer, Player, Nicklaus, Casper, Trevino--had bypassed the Pleasant Valley Classic, either because they thought the course's super-narrow fairways were an unfair test or because they wanted to tune their games for the up-coming PGA Championship. Johnny Miller, former U.S. Open and British Open Champion Tony Jacklin, and tour veteran Grier Jones had withdrawn from the tournament for a variety of dissimilar reasons, while such stars as Bert Yancey, Frank Beard and Bob Goalby had failed to make the 36-hole cut of 148 (six over par on the 7305-yard, par 71 Pleasant Valley...
...killed in an accident (or is he?) and Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...
...narrative runs from the early 1930s through the end of World War II, covering journalistic sojourns abroad and in Fleet Street and wartime experiences as a cloak-and-dagger man in Africa and Europe. Among Muggeridge's notable colleagues of that tune were Graham Greene and the double agent Kim Philby. Spying depressed Muggeridge so that he even flirted with suicide one night in Mozambique by swimming out to sea. Unlike Evelyn Waugh, whose attempt to drown himself was foiled by a sting from a jellyfish, Muggeridge simply turned back to shore "without thinking or deciding." Through...
...Tune and place are also cut loose; interwoven with the story of Karl's transformation are 18 historical sketches covering more than 100 years of European history. Moorcock shows Karl as an orphan who sees his mother murdered in the Paris Commune of 1871. From a London sweatshop in 1906 he is drawn into revolutionary violence. Later he plays the violin in Auschwitz. The book is by turns puzzling, funny and shocking. By 1990, with Karl sitting in the ruins of London, Moorcock has brilliantly demonstrated his point-that man's imagination has always driven him deep Into...
Brian Aldiss jumps a few years ahead to 2020 to describe a world not only in ruins but also mutated in the most frightening way. The entire structure of tune and space has been disrupted by a nuclear war so that past and present, here and there, exist simultaneously. One never knows from day to day if he will awake in medieval times or the age of the Pharaohs...