The [James Bond] formula remains stirring but not shaken. Bond still astonishes headwaiters with his raffine tastes, fondles weapons and women with equal ardor and moves with eerie confidence though a world of constant, cosmic peril. … The only evil talent his enemies lack is an ability to aim straight when shooting at him. “Do you lose as gracefully as you win?” one arch-scoundrel asks Bond. “I don’t know,” Bond shrugs elegantly. “I’ve never lost.” (Frank Lidz, 007 Has Moved Smoothly Through the Last 35 Years, The Dallas Morning News, 12/30/1997, p. 12C.)
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