Word: whooshes
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...interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...
BOOKS The Night Manager, John le Carre's new dazzler, has the smooth whoosh of a Bentley. THEATER Terrence McNally's play is a miracle worker. TELEVISION A weekend in the life of one troubled family makes a fine mini-series. CINEMA In the Line of Fire casts Eastwood as Clintosaurus rex. MUSIC In mid-megatour, U2 releases a reflective album...
...dare. She had settled on a simple plan. Just wait for the bell to ring, reach into her book bag, grab the 12-in. fillet knife she had brought from home and stab the teacher in the chest while Marlena, a 12- year-old accomplice, pinned her down. Then -- whoosh -- instant respect...
...exhilarating whoosh of success has left Singleton racing to catch up with himself. At times he keeps pace, knowingly talking shop with Coppola, Spike Lee and Steven Spielberg, once childhood idols, now professional confidants; or he adopts a man-of-the-world tone as he kindly reassures auditioning actresses that none of the women in his new script are "prostitutes, maids or welfare mothers," the demeaning roles that black women are usually required to play in films...
...time, now looks like a bargain the Japanese would envy. The Atlanta Braves, which Turner bought in 1976, snuffled along in the gutter for years, then went from last place to first in their division this year and lost the World Series by only a bat's whoosh. And CNN, once derided as the "Chicken Noodle Network" for its low wages and amateurish presentation, is now the video medium of record...