Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More significant still is the appearance of a crypto-Communist parliamentary opposition led by the People's Action Party, whose spokesman is baby-faced Lee Kuan-yew, a Malaya-born Chinese. Lee Kuan-yew cannot read or write Chinese, but he graduated with high honors from Britain's Cambridge University. Lee's opposition never misses an opportunity of disrupting or discrediting the fledgling government...
...tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus. His flat is on the floor above hers; when she wants him, she bangs on the ceiling with a broom, and he sneaks down through the dumbwaiter. Then one day her husband sails in through the door...
...back and. as she awaits medical attention, launches into the first of a series of flashbacks that show her renouncing her true love (she has to pay back some $11,-ooo her ever-loving daddy embezzled), helping a Polish immigrant to learn English and grow up to write bad plays, rescuing the underprivileged boy from across the tracks, and airily saving the town bank from failing during the Depression. Actress Jones seems to have a fine time portraying the exemplar of all the virtues. However, the town's citizens, all of whom seem to have been in her classroom...
...frog . . . suddenly began to write very fast on a blackboard behind...
...well as one of Congressional investigator, but the whole emphasis of the book is frankly on sex, and these other themes never achieve the impact Maller intended. By putting what seems to be unnecessary stress on the sleeping habits of his characters, Mailer has lost an excellent opportunity to write a fine moral on the mores of the movie industry