Word: witness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Historical thrillers are the meatiest of all mysteries. They are connected to reality like funny bone to shoulder bone, insidiously subverting the official versions of history. Gore Vidal's Burr, for instance, and-more inventively-Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution plausibly :combine wit, suspense, speculation and scholarship. Novels like these not only induce insomnia but are also hallucinogenic, tingeing with fantasy the reader's remembrance of known fact...
...much I would give to have been born sooner so I could have followed The Who for its whole career. Its music, rock 'n' roll without compromising intelligence and wit, is as timeless as Beethoven and the Beatles...
...ABSURD, fairy-tale premise of the story works in Kosinski's novel because the author, like the Grimms, writes caressing, witty words while he brazenly plunders his frail theme. Ashby's direction of Kosinski's script slips at times from wit to slapstick but generally maintains a simple, even tone reflective of his hero, the boob-tube boob...