Word: abruptness
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...only the most cursory explanation of his failure to recall the year of his birth. In recent appearances, Hart has routinely made self-deprecating jokes about his age. Yet when a reporter brings up the age issue during a relaxed dinner at a Florida restaurant, Hart turns wintry and abrupt. Pronouncing each word slowly, frostily, he says, "People . . . just . . . don't . . . care...
...pages that follow, May conjures up the terror of a sunless dreamscape. He recalls abrupt summonses, moonlit interrogations in the fields and the quiet dawn in which he had to start digging his own grave -- before being reprieved for hard labor. He describes daytime marches through a desolate land of phantoms. "There was dew on the vegetation, and I washed my face in it. Deer were calling through the mist. We passed through alternating areas of thick forest and cassava fields. The stilted huts in the fields were empty and there was no one on the track...
THERE IS NO reality in Phillip Roth's new novel. The Counterlife is a story with so many U-turns and abrupt stops that it leaves the reader befuddled about what to believe or not to believe about Roth's fictional world. Roth, an old master, has created a story without the traditional beginning, middle and end, and by doing so he provides insight into...
With that announcement, the course of China's Second Revolution was suddenly called into question. A country that has gone through several abrupt changes of political direction in the past 40 years was perhaps about to face another major shift. During the past decade, Deng led the most adventurous economic reform program ever undertaken by a Communist country, and Hu, 71, was his steadfast second in command. The two pushed through economic liberalizations that freed the country from the iron hand of central planners and opened a road that appeared to lead eventually to more personal liberties...
Lawmen guess Dallas hightailed it back to Paradise Hill, a one-blink junction in northern Nevada. Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a barstool, then to an unmade bed in a nearby trailer and finally to an abrupt end at Highway 95. Though every waitress and cowhand between Boise and Reno seems to know Dallas, no one admits spotting him since the jailbreak...