Word: disappointed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no revelation-is too dim to illuminate Nobody's Angel. McGuane has not so much made the Old West new as buried many of the romantic myths under a modern veneer of laconic prose and cowboy Weltschmerz. Fitzpatrick, and apparently McGuane, believes that quadrupeds do not disappoint like bipeds. The trouble is, novels with more affection for the equine than the human tend to gallop only for a short stretch. And then, all too frequently, they pull up lame. -By Richard Stengel
...since 1974 he has been the West Bank reporter for Israel Television. Halabi's cultural and professional credentials make him uniquely suited to provide a balanced account of the conflict between Israel and the Arabs of the West Bank. His first book, The West Bank Story, does not disappoint this expectation. In it, Halabi offers a compelling and graphic chronicle of the deteriorating relations between the West Bank's Israeli occupiers and its Arab inhabitants...
...first attempt at anything musical since guiding his father, Actor Walter Huston, through a jig in the 1948 classic Treasure of Sierra Madre. "And that," John admits, "was his own choreography." The Annie youngsters were just as professional. Says Huston: "If you understand kids, they never disappoint...
...Help Loving Dat Man of Mine, and successfully essays a few that are not attached to her name, like The Surrey with the Fringe on Top. When she begins Rodgers and Hart's Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, a premonitory shudder passes through the theater. She does not disappoint, and the words-"I'm a rich, ripe, ready plum again"-are not sung but caressed, as if they were old friends, which they clearly are. Sixty-four next month, Horne has not only been around, she has been all around for a long, long time...
...considerably more thought-provoking. Although he explicitly omits all writings on the war, the aspirations and politics of the radical movement--the New Left that derived much of its impetus from the war protest--serve as his preoccupying theme during the early '70s. This group of essays will surely disappoint most people who know Walzer as the serious and methodical Harvard political philosopher. His opinions included as much interpretation of American culture as of politics, reflecting the hectic transition of American society. Although often insightful and emotive, their desultory vagueness smacks of Harper's and Atlantic standard monthly pablum...