In response to recent calls from some quarters for measures to protect children from TV violence, Continental Cablevision in St. Paul, Minn., plans to launch a marketing campaign focusing on the modification of an existing remote control feature. "CLICS," or Customized Line-up...

If the Europeans had a continental anthem, it would be a protracted whine. Their coat of arms should include a bottle of Geritol, symbolic of tired blood. Like a pack of brats, they're always sniveling about something the grownups (that's us) are...

The core of Hammett's art is his version of the masculine figure in American society. The Continental Op constitutes the basic pattern for this figure, which in the body of Hammett's work undergoes a revealing development. The older detectives of literature—exemplified most unequivocally by the figure of Sherlock Holmes—stood on a firm social and moral basis, and won their triumphs through the exercise of reason…. The question of his motives never arises, simply because it...