Word: 20th
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Texasville is McMurtry's eleventh novel, and by now his wonderfully loose- jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams between the ambling lies of the 19th century frontier yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the 20th century novelist. When the tall tales have room to unwind to the horizon, as they do in Lonesome Dove (1985), McMurtry's haunting legend of the last cattle drives, the result is extraordinary. This sort of storytelling works best with a lot of action, however, and the new novel describes...
Avishai, a writer, said he plans to work on "an intellectual portrait of Arthur Koestler," a 20th-century British writer born in Hungary...
...necessary votes to gain entrance into baseball's Hall of Fame the last time around. While Rizzuto waited, 1986 produced one of the finest crops of shortstops in many years. In fact, one shortstop collected more hits (213) last season than any other player at that position in the 20th century. Name...
Four Crimson players--Palandjian (28th), Stanley (51st), Clark (70th) and Engle (72nd)--are ranked among the top 100 singles players in college tennis. The doubles team of Engle and Palandjian is ranked 20th...
...final game against Queens, the Crimson got off to another fast start, as Ozer picked up her 20th point of the tournament, scoring a goal barely 10 seconds into the game...