Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...author said he made a conscious decision to work with a character some consider stereotypical--a single Southern woman living by Christian television...
...think the story is one that cuts across economic and geographical lines," the author also said...
Like his father, novelist Kingsley Amis, the author courts the charge of misogyny. Modified misanthropy would be closer to the mark. Almost anything on two legs is fair game for the Amis blitz. Keith Talent reads like a composite of every cheating, pub-crawling lout that Amis has ever met, which is probably quite a few. A typical Talent day includes waking with a hangover, a round of serial adulteries and petty larcenies, then hours of whetting his dart skills at the Black Cross. A typical business transaction includes stealing a shipment of perfume and, when finding out that...
...seminal study of refrigerator pricing, invents IRAT and becomes exceedingly rich. He thus affronts the self-satisfied Cambridge community, where "no one has ever been known to repeat what he or she has heard at a party, only what he or she has said." This is the mandarin author's slyest satire...
...author's mannerisms are like old pals. One staple is stretches of unanchored dialogue so protracted that one has to go back and count off who is speaking. Another is italics. A simple sentence like "If only Marcus could start writing, then everything would move" would not appear to need emphasis, but Murdoch's fans play along, as if she were somehow reading the story aloud...