Word: absented
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Locker's confidence is contagious, and he hasbrought an excitement to the program that has longbeen absent...
Locker's confidence is contagious, and he hasbrought an excitement to the program that has longbeen absent...
Locker's confidence is contagious, and he hasbrought an excitement to the program that has longbeen absent...
This last element -- the not unreasonable requirement that at least somebody in a thriller be interesting enough to spend an evening with -- is utterly absent from another much whooped crime novel about to reach the bookstores. It doesn't matter that the story comes from Rent-a-Plot in first novelist Scott Smith's A Simple Plan. The idea has worked before and will again: a couple of ordinary guys in northern Ohio stumble over a small plane crashed in the woods. The pilot is dead. The cargo is $3.5 million in used U.S. currency. Should they...
...they were five years ago. Moreover, a 13-year-old is less likely to be coerced into imagining abuse than a pre-schooler is. Still, Ceci cautions, "there is no Pinocchio test. The child's nose doesn't grow longer when he tells you something that is factually untrue." Absent physical evidence -- bruises, photographs -- only the adult and, perhaps, the child know if the charge is true...