Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While most of this yarn is expertly comical, Linklater's Scots satire does not sustain the brilliance of, say, Honor Tracy's jape at the Irish, The Straight and Narrow Path. Too many other elements (including Yacky Doo's mawkish death) intrude on the story's essential mixture of fondness and malice. But Author Linklater's entertainment survives its flaws. His most effective jest is at the expense of the reader who, eager to read the imaginary Burns erotica, leafs ahead to find some. The novel is salted with verses, but most of them...
North by Northwest. A wild, completely entertaining Hitchcock yarn, in which enemy spies have the gall to think they can rub out Gary Grant. With Eva Marie Saint...