Word: woven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses...
...European stores still offer many bargains for the perspicacious visitor. In Italy, Fendi handbags and Nazareno Gabrielli shoes cost 25% less than they do in the U.S. Greece's hand-woven shoulder bags, called tagari, are priced at only...
Last week, nearly 5½ years after that verdict, a California court of appeal reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial. The court seemed to have little doubt about Corona's guilt. It noted an "elaborately woven web of circumstantial evidence connecting appellant to the crimes and unerringly pointing to his participation in their commission." Even so, said the three-judge panel, the fact remains that Corona had a history of mental illness; yet his lawyer "failed to raise the obvious alternative defenses of mental incompetence and/or diminished capacity and/or legal insanity." Why? Because, said Hawk, discussing Corona...
...debut. Many of the dialogue scenes fall flat--partly because of easily anticipated jokes and a few wooden characterizations--and by the second act the audience waits only for the next number to start. Several fine performances, though, keep this production of Company from being a skein of loosely-woven songs, the foremost among them Bonnie Lander's funny and beautifully-timed Joanne, the bitch-queen, older-and-wiser friend. Landers dominates every scene she is in but never hams it up, the only disappointment in her performance being her rendition of "The Ladies Who Lunch," a biting blast about...
...that is what distinguishes The Honourable Schoolboy from the rest of the books on the "Mystery" shelf: it is, at bottom, a tremendous story, or more exactly, stories--for le Carre has conveniently woven in enough tangled subplots to keep not only the most devoted spy thriller fan, but also the most fascinated student of human nature, absorbed. What drives the le Carre fans is not absurd schemes to take over the world, nor, of course, masturbatory fantasies, replete with sadistic fiends and willing damsels-in-distress. Rather, these are stories about men and women struggling to keep their heads...