Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...between a fast-receding past and today's headlines have been laid out, all the false trails explored, the action lies buried under a pile of verbiage. It used to be that detective stories were lean and laconic. The attempt to give them spurious importance by having them address what are thought to be big subjects is ruining them. They really must get back to their Bogartian basics. -By Richard Schickel
This sort of thing will almost certainly offend Christie purists, and it may puzzle those few remaining gentlefolk who are uninterested in the offstage carryings-on of picture people. But the film does capture, in satirically exaggerated tones, certain recognizable film types and the hyperbolic, hyperactive way they address one another during the many waiting-around hours their peculiar occupations impose upon them. This does not entirely compensate for the short weight this picture gives mystery fans or for its technical shoddiness. But the good lines make Mirror more fun to watch than it has any right...
Isaac Bashevis Singer goes further. In his Nobel Prize address he cites ten reasons why he writes for the young...
...city full of female legs: walking, running, bicycling, escalatoring. Hands hail a cab, finger a watch, exchange coins for coffee. The coffee spills on her new pumps. 8:50. Speed-read the morning paper, run for the elevator, just miss it. One pert, frazzled woman checks a scrawled address, enters the anonymous skyscraper, ascends to her new job. The elevator doors open, then begin to close. She realizes that this is her floor and dashes through the doors...
...pressing social problems. He advocates a decentralized, grass-roots reform of labor, corporations and government relationships. Muller outlines a program of cooperation between these economic actors that would eradicate the misallocation of resources, stemming from interest group haggling. His idea is intriguing, if utopian, but it still fails to address the issue of those who are represented neither by corporation, bureaucracy or union. Muller's array of strategic planning and targeting might possibly succeed in reversing declining productivity rates and other inflationary trends. But measures based on the corporate sector, as most of his are, will not affect the prosperity...