Word: ambers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while yet." Instead of suspense, the emphasis of this novel falls on what it feels like to be alive and aware at a specific historical period, in this case the first six months of 1988. And Drabble's rather disjointed panorama of diverse characters caught in the amber of time produces an eerily convincing sense of life in a technologically advanced society, of the horrors that are reported electronically -- say, from the killing fields of Cambodia -- and those that may erupt immediately down the street or in the next room...
...Everyone really came together this weekend, and it was great to finish the season with a win," Brummond said. "Amber Keasey really came through in the goal and played well this weekend...
...Sophomore Amber Keasey and Katie Maloney really stepped up and did a good job for us in the goal," Coach Nancy Nitardy said. "This is the first year in the goal for both of them, and they both were real solid...
...find. It piles the debris in its den, where it becomes saturated with urine. As the urine evaporates in the dry climate, it crystallizes, gradually enveloping the collection and forming a large, hard clump. Protected from the elements, the pack rat's trophies, like insects entombed in amber, are preserved for millenniums...
Preening for the camera in a white suit and Panama hat, an unctuous TV talk- show host named Agamemnon tries to prove his credentials as a Latin Lothario by reading letters from female viewers inviting him to "invade me, blockade me, dictate me." An amber-skinned transvestite named Manny the Fanny gyrates to a dance-club hit while recalling her Krazy Glue revenge on an unfaithful boyfriend. A punchy Peruvian ex-boxer, pressed to name a famous Hispanic, searches the blank canvas of his mind. "William Shakesperez," he intones. "He wrote Macho Do About Nothing and The Merchant of Venezuela...