Sentences with phrase «familiar pay scale»

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In Inherent Vice — a wily fifth - generation Los Angeles noir that riffs with equal dexterity on the genre's classical high - points (The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity), its radical Fifties masterpieces (In a Lonely Place, Kiss Me Deadly), its New Hollywood re-stagings (Chinatown, The Long Goodbye), and its Nineties postmodern updates (L.A. Confidential, The Big Lebowski)-- he finds it in another familiar character type: the reckless, sharp - witted professional snoop caught up in a case beyond his pay scale.