Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actor (The Devil's Playground). The subjects of his nearly 20 books are equally protean: Joan of Arc, the U.S. Civil War battle at Antietam, World War I armistice negotiations, exploration in Antarctica. His 1982 volume, Schindler's List, set off a literary tempest: although it told of an actual German businessman who saved some 1,300 Jews from the Nazis, the book was awarded Britain's prestigious Booker McConnell prize for fiction, eligible apparently because Keneally used novelistic techniques of narrative and reconstruction in telling a true story...
...James is an esteemed mystery novelist whose 1980 book Innocent Blood became a mainstream best seller. Her fictions often center on guilty secrets and the way the past reverberates into the present. In The Maul and the Pear Tree, James applies her narrative and analytic talents to the actual: the Ratcliffe Highway murders that took place in early-l9th century London. Although the seven killings in two merchant households were widely publicized and later inspired Thomas De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts," James and her collaborator, Police Historian T.A. Critchley, found that...
Even after this weekend's competition, however, the season continues for the divers. The U.S. Senior National qualifiers take place in the second week of April in Pittsburgh, with the actual championships the following week in Indianapolis...
...dollars' worth of poorly aimed cocaine packages fell upon an isolated farming village. The natives tried to make the mysterious substance into a whitewash for their huts but discovered it worked better as a foot powder and diaper-rash treatment. They began selling it for about $50 a kilogram (actual wholesale value: $30,000 per kg) until police heard about their windfall and carted away what was left of the drug...
...became confused about what star was being honored. The subject of the Manhattan benefit for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts was Spencer Tracy, a 1923 academy graduate who went on to what he might have called a nice little career of 74 films and two Oscars. But the actual star of the evening, in the hearts of the audience at least, was Katharine Hepburn, Tracy's co-star in nine movies and his real-life love for more than 20 years, until his death in 1967. The evening featured her new documentary on Tracy (which will...