Word: disinterments
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A satisfyingly rich, juicy slice of '50s noir, and quite possibly the most deftly crafted film to emerge yet this year. Slicker and less disturbingly gritty than "Chinatown," but more bang-out entertaining, it's boosted by a a superlative cast--the crown jewel of which is a trio of...
The alternative, if that sounds too nasty, is to disinter dear Uncle Sam. I can just see that eccentric old geezer striding out into the daylight again, rolling up his sleeves and getting down to work -- feeding the hungry, healing the sick, scrubbing the environment, giving us an infrastructure that...
But Marilyn is one Hollywood Venus whose memory--and marketability--is eternal. While no one has gone so far as to disinter Monroe's body, the media, the fans, the flesh mongers and the merely curious will not let her rest in peace. When the new Madonna pumped her muscles...
Hurtling down two streams of time, the '50s and the '80s, the book displays all the author's patented tics and tropes. The Beautiful Losers: a black, a homosexual, and -- among others persecuted in adolescence and now called home to disinter a buried memory -- a stutterer and an abused girl...
Cynics might say that he did it for the publicity, and cynics might be right. But a fair reading of the novel suggests more complex motives. A Perfect Spy has all the strengths and some of the weaknesses of an extended emotional purge: intensity, authenticity, flashes of black humor, a...