Word: disappoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...King's loyal and extensive readership will stampede toward the author's work, even when, as is the case with the recent best-selling novel Thinner, it is offered under a pseudonym. Nothing whatever in Skeleton Crew, a collection of 22 stories written over the past 19 years, will disappoint his presold constituents...
...running out of faculty in hot subjects," Riesman says "I don't see bright students in the pipeline. Most of my students disappoint me by going on to Lawershood...
...visual strategies reminiscent of both Terrence Malick and Sergio Leone, and a grisly climax that borrows from Psycho and Ministry of Fear. But Blood Simple infiltrates the central nervous system even as it opens the cultist's sharp eye. Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint...
Wisely, Glazebrook keeps this sort of modernist baggage to a minimum. He knows what readers want from a travel book, and he does not disappoint them. His route, from the Aegean coast to the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union, stretches like an ancient weft on which history and legend are tightly knotted. This has a sumptuous effect on his prose: "We were surging through bright water off the promontory of Knidos, to which Praxiteles' Venus once drew all travelers . .. Here were the ramparts of Asia crumbling into a sapphire...
...their story becomes entertainment through the familiar skill of Porter and the refreshingly polished performances of the small cast. We have come to expect much from Cole Porter, and You Never Know, featuring such familiar tunes as "By Candlelight," "At Long Last Love," and "Let's Misbehave," does not disappoint...