Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers are willing to unravel yards of obscuring verbiage, they will find flashes of vivid comic writing-and a sometimes gripping Field & Stream hunting yarn told in what Mailer fondly believes to be the accents of Ernest Hemingway. Unhappily, Mailer is not only politically naive; even his doggedly filthy language is grade-B graffiti...
Griffin does more than tell a good yarn. He points out the hopelessness of trying to apply humane laws to the inhumane lawlessness...
...from water. Of course, as Treasurer Evans says, "we can't expect another nylon." Or could it happen? The company is already building a plant to manufacture a mystery fabric to be introduced next year. So far, Du Pont will say only that it involves "an entirely new yarn" with "higher esthetics and performance than anything now known...
...there is never much chance for the comedy, let alone for the original yarn (which, like all Bond stories, could not be taken seriously, but which at least was a story). The movie is too busy kidding the previous Bond movies, which kidded the books and themselves before they were in turn kidded by the U.N.C.L.E.s and Flints. Poor 007 is now lost in a hall of distorting mirrors. It is no surprise that by the last reel there is a distinct air of defeat about Casino Royale, as if the money ($12 million) and the time (134 minutes...
Heinrich BÖll's Enter and Exit, a story of the first and last days of World War II, is technically no more demanding than a run-of-the-mill yarn in the old Saturday Evening Post, but the reader follows BÖll's hero willingly. Although the psychology is unsubtle and the theme not far from trite, BÖll deals in reality...