Considered popular and gorgeous by most of the male students, she is: 26 years old ; single ; 88-57-87 ; 5 ' 2 "; ; her favorites foods are tofu burgers, shave ice, and hard-boiled eggs ; her favorite flower is the rose ; and she's terrified of spiders.

This was a reading audience who were being introduced to the masters of hard-boiled pulp fiction, authors who, as Raymond Chandler said, were "... giving murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.

All these books were written in the first person, with a sardonic style reminiscent of the " hard-boiled private-eye " genre.

Although Chandler and Hammett were contemporaries and grouped as the founders of the hard-boiled school, Chandler speaks of him as the " one individual ... picked out to represent the whole movement ," noting Hammett's mastery of the " American language ", his adherence to reality, and that he " gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse.

Los Angeles's literary history includes legendary authors like Raymond Chandler, whose hard-boiled detective stories were set in pre-war and immediate post-war L. A. Ross Macdonald carried on the Chandler tradition into the 1950s, and in the 1960s and 1970s blended it with themes of classical tragedy.

Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps.

Some were merely sleazy, but others were in a tough, hard-boiled style that seemed somehow more knowing and more contemporary than that of the surviving pulps.

" Anthony Boucher praised the novel, saying " Matheson has added a new variant on the Last Man theme ... and has given striking vigor to his invention by a forceful style of storytelling which derives from the best hard-boiled crime novels ".

The main character, Sam Spade, appears only in this novel and in three lesser known short stories, yet is widely cited as the crystallizing figure in the development of the hard-boiled private detective genre – Raymond Chandler's character Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Hammett's Spade.

It's Hans Christian Andersen stuff written by a hard-boiled journalist and transferred to the screen by trick-wise Hollywoodites.

* The American hard-boiled school: Distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex, the sleuth usually also confronts danger and engages in violence.

* The New York Times: " The flapper, impersonated by a young actress, Clara Bow, had five speaking titles, and every one of them was so entirely in accord with the character and the mood of the scene that it drew a laugh from what, in film circles, is termed a " hard-boiled " audience "

While pulp detectives such as Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe are hard-boiled and cynical, Hammer is in many ways the archetypal " hard man ": brutally violent, and fuelled by a genuine rage against violent crime that never afflicts Raymond Chandler's or Dashiell Hammett's heroes.

The Spectre debuted in More Fun Comics # 52 ( Feb. 1940 ) when hard-boiled cop Jim Corrigan was murdered by being stuffed into a barrel ( which was then filled with cement ) and drowned.

* The Black Mask Boys: masters in the hard-boiled school of detective fiction edited by William F. Nolan, ( 1985 ).

71 1985, p. 66 ), a parody of hard-boiled pulp fiction by authors such as Raymond Chandler, Donald J. Evans set out the possibility of a trial by battle in the setting of a lawyer's office.

However, the atmosphere created by hard-boiled writers and the settings they chose for their novels are different from English country-house murders or mysteries surrounding rich old ladies elegantly bumped off on a cruise ship, with a detective happening to be on board.

The character, however, is widely cited as a crystallizing figure in the development of hard-boiled private detective fiction – Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, for instance, was strongly influenced by Spade.

In the latter, inspired by the hard-boiled detective film noir of the 1930s and ' 40s, he returned to his jazz roots, and the show was a huge critical and commercial success.

When consumed the wee hours of the Paschal morning after church, magiritsa is sometimes accompanied by salad and cheese, tsoureki sweet bread, and hard-boiled eggs dyed red as a symbol of the risen Christ's blood.

He has been seen riding in a motorcycle sidecar, aboard a passenger airplane, and in a small diner, among other places, and ends by saying something that lampoons his serious-reporter personality ( e. g., " I'll have a cherry lime rickey and a hard-boiled egg " to the waitress in the diner ).

:" If Pickup on South Street makes any point at all, it's that there is nothing really wrong with pickpockets, even when they are given to violence, as long as they don't play footsie with Communist spies ... Film's assets are partly its photography, which creates an occasional tense atmosphere, and partly the performance of Thelma Ritter, the only halfway convincing figure in an otherwise unconvincing cast ... Widmark is given a chance to repeat on his snarling menace characterization followed by a look-what-love-can-do-to-a-bad-boy act as Widmark's hard-boiled soul melts before Peters ' romancing.

" The Simple Art of Murder " refers to both a critical essay and a collection of short stories written by hard-boiled detective fiction author Raymond Chandler.

Hardboiled ( or hard-boiled ) fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with crime fiction ( especially detective stories ), and distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sometimes sex.

behind which nearly ended his career, a knee problem in the 1956 playoffs that required surgery, a severed tendon in 1960, a shot from Bobby Hull in 1961 that hit him in the forehead, a pulled hamstring the same year, a pulled hamstring in 1963 – 64, knee surgery in 1966 followed by a sprained knee and then a concussion from a hard-boiled egg thrown by a New York fan, a broken

Gehakte hering ( chopped herring ), a popular appetizer on Shabbat, is made by chopping skinned, boned herrings with hard-boiled eggs, onions, apples, sugar, pepper, and a dash of vinegar.

In July 1960 he exhibited Consumption of Art by the Art-Devouring Public, in which he hard-boiled eggs, printed his thumprint onto them, and then handed them out to the audience to eat.

On her arrival she immediately has a confrontation with the hard-boiled construction superintendent, who hadn't realized she was female.

Greatly changed from the novel, it became a comedy / drama about a hard-boiled reporter who becomes popular when he adopts a female pseudonym and dispenses fatuous advice.

Horseradish ( often grated and mixed with cream, hard-boiled eggs, or apples ) is also a traditional Easter dish in Slovenia and in the adjacent Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia ; it is used also in the other nearby Italian region of Veneto.

It is also served with cold chicken or hard-boiled eggs in France, the UK, Benelux, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

The Brazilian salada de batata ( s ) are made with large cubes of steamed or boiled larger potatoes, generally peeled before cooking, either passed in the pan with garlic, chives and parsley, or some other herbs or vegetables, and covered with cream ( generally eaten both hot and cold ), or mixing mayonnaise, some olive oil, raw garlic, raw onion and other herbs ( such as chives and parsley, but also some pepper ) and one more or various other ingredients ( the most common is mixing the yolk of a hard-boiled egg in the mayonnaise before mixing the ingredients and after use its white, but also common are ham, corn, peas or chickpeas ).

A lifelong fan of " hard-boiled " fiction, Zevon was friendly with several well-known writers who also collaborated on his songwriting during this period, including Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Mitch Albom.

; Sate Telor Puyuh ( Quail eggs satay ): Several hard-boiled quail eggs are put into skewers, marinated in sweet soy sauce with spices and boiled further, also served as a side-dish for soto.

Powell also played the slightly-less hard-boiled detective Richard Rogue in the radio series " Rogue's Gallery ", beginning in 1945.

A Scotch egg, also known as an egg devil, consists of a hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried.

A U. S. reaction to the cosy conventionality of British murder mysteries was the American hard-boiled school of crime writing ( certain works in the field are also referred to as noir fiction ).

It also typically contains finely chopped ingredients, which can include pickles, onions, bell peppers, green olives, hard-boiled egg, parsley, pimento, chives, garlic, or chopped nuts ( such as walnuts or chestnuts ).

They are also known for deep-fried empanadas made with shredded chicken, onions, olives, hard-boiled eggs, and raisins, then topped with sugar before serving.

Ironically, Montgomery would also play the classic American hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe in The Lady in the Lake ( 1947 ).

In Britain and Australia, " egg roll " also commonly refers to a fried egg in a bread roll ( a breakfast item ) or chopped, hard-boiled egg with mayonnaise in a bread roll ( a party buffet item ).

* Curry puff, also known as epok-epok, a flaky pastry usually stuffed with curry chicken, potato cubes, and a slice of hard-boiled egg and sometimes sardines are used in place of chicken

* Mee siam, " Siamese noodle ", or thin rice noodles in a tangy spicy soup ; may also be served " dry " and often are served with a hard-boiled egg

There is also another egg dish called penoy which is basically hard-boiled unfertilized duck eggs.

Besides chicken and vermicelli, it is also served with hard-boiled eggs, slices of fried potatoes, Chinese celery leaves, and fried shallots.

It was also found that they have eaten chickens in captivity as well as feeding on a variety of plants, carrots, lettuce, bananas, potatoes, hard-boiled eggs, and yams.

The Guðrún lays show that the hard-boiled heroic poetry of the Poetic Edda also had place for the hardships of women.

The Guðrún lays show that the hard-boiled heroic poetry of the Poetic Edda also had place for the hardships of women.

In this drama the main characters are: the hard-boiled Lieutenant Detective Random Coolzip ; his wife, Peggy, who is also his dispatcher ; their son, Skip Coolzip, a junior policeman ; and their daughter, Kim, a pornographic film actress.