Bewildered secret service agent Matt Dillon wakes up bloodied and bruised in a small town in Idaho, where the requisite secrets lurk just beneath the picture-perfect surface.
This time around, the requisite earth-shattering secret is a discovery made by Edmond Kirsch, a computer genius with a flair for dramatic presentations and infinite delays.
Despite a surfeit of the genre's requisite trappings (food rationing, secret police, universal surveillance, dopey government acronyms), "Chalcot Crescent" might be the least depressing — certainly it's the most cheerful — dystopian fiction I've ever come across, thanks to Weldon's slashing wit and her refusal to suffer fools gladly, no matter how despotic.
We'd giggle over the stories about the 150-pound Asian baby, the expose about alien sex, and yes, the requisite piece about Elvis' ghost, his secret Russian love child, and his faked death (the King lives in a split-family ranch house outside of Modesto, duh).
Ms. Blethyn, the British actress who appeared to such fine advantage in (and received an Oscar nomination for) the Mike Leigh film "Secrets and Lies," has the requisite fretful voice and fidgety mannerisms down pat.
Richard's vague search for heaven on earth (with some requisite danger thrown in) leads him to a secret commune on a remote coastal island that can be reached only by swimming to its shores.
Shortly after signing the requisite nondisclosure agreement, I was led to a secret laboratory.
It is true, as we have held in another part of this opinion, that no device or contrivance, secret or fraudulent in its nature, is requisite to the commission of the offense outlined in the statute, and that any means by which transportation by a concession from the established rate was had is sufficient to work a conviction.
Each player in the real or imagined plots -- the seekers of secrets and the keepers of secrets -- inevitably performs to character, provoking what Professor Goldberg explains is the requisite confrontation that conspiracism demands.
"Baidu hides behind the guise of a 'neutral search engine' and employs sophisticated secret music Web sites and deep links which without the requisite technology expertise makes it almost impossible for copyright holders to detect and protect their rights by exposing Baidus dubious activities," they said in a statement.
Not since the requisite eating disorder in high school have I so often found myself in secret places, making up stories about my whereabouts, and feeling generally insatiable.
