Word: gimcracks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...largest casual dining restaurant concept in the world" (Ruby Tuesday, by comparison, has just 880 locations). Note the language: Applebee's is much more concept than restaurant. It serves food grounded in no particular ethnic or regional cuisine in settings bewilderingly overstuffed with pop-culture images and gimcrack Americana. The following items are affixed to the walls of the Jamestown Applebee...
...self-aware as he clearly is, the unhinging outcome is perhaps too much of a surprise to him and not entirely persuasive to us. That said, The Pledge is still an original and morally alert detective story. Whatever its defects, it reminds us, in our seemingly endless season of gimcrack thrillers, that tense, well-played realism can invigorate our commitment to fictional lives, involve us in the dilemmas of everyday existence as they steal up on people and catch them unaware...