Bertaut
Looks great and is well acted, but the pacing is turgid
I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelettes without breaking eggs.
- Robert Moses; Open letter to Robert Caro, refuting many of the claims in Caro's biography of Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (August 26, 1974)
_Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detect__ive stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful p...