Word: abruptness
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...pals. The Crisis Years (HarperCollins), a new book on the Kennedy Administration by historian Michael Beschloss, discloses the contents of 80 secret messages between the U.S. and Soviet leaders on subjects ranging from the Berlin Wall to Vietnam. In his research, Beschloss discovered why the correspondence came to an abrupt end six weeks before Kennedy's death: because of a bureaucratic misunderstanding, the State Department failed to send a crucial Kennedy response to Khrushchev's peace proposals...
...rambling dialogue sometimes frustrates the reader, but the abrupt shifts in topics successfully demonstrate the emotional distance between the two women. At one point, Molly describes a friend's dress that is "a layered black chiffon with tiny spaghetti straps and no back to it whatsoever." Lily eagerly seizes the opportunity to tell about a dress of hers that is just like it "only my dress is dark blue with little star shaped gold flecks in it." Lily associates the dress with memories of her and her husband's first encounter, which she gladly relates...
Another problem with the ending is its abrupt shift to feminism. The authors construct a plot in which the issue of civil rights is entangled with the need to choose the right man. Although Charlie and Ian are always viewed as somewhat manipulative, their attempts to dominate Evelyn remain unquestioned until the final scene...
Damage is the story of one man's obsession that eventually destroys his family and his life. The main character, who remains unnamed, is a respectable English doctor and politician, ostensibly a good father and husband. His bourgeois bliss comes to an abrupt end when Anna Barton, the fiancee of his son Martyn, enters our hero's life...
That feeling came to an abrupt end at about 2 a.m. Thursday morning, when Israelis across the country were roused from bed by the wail of air raid sirens...