Kerry J. Schooley said:
<<Colloquial. Didn't we agree on colloquial as the
characteristic for hard boiled?>>
Not all of us agreed, if we did we knocked out
Chandler.
<<Not that class entirely coincides with colloquial,
but we're getting awfully close. So much of it is about the
working stiff, or the disenfranchised. I don't think we're
talking Knob
Hill colloquialisms here.>>
Kerry, you key phrase there is "so much of it is about the
working stiff . . ." Yes, so much of it but not all of
it.
But then as Bill Denton said the other day, I subscribe to
the Jack Bludis heresy.
Hardboiled=Tough
Noir=Screwed
Jack Bludis, the heretic
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