Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Benedict's pass out to the edge of the arc rolled past the Crimson players stationed there--players chosen only by their ability to smack balls from Ithaca to Syracuse. Several of those happened to be backs...
...fend for themselves and hampered by the temporary absence of their relentless military commander Ratko Mladic, who was in the hospital reportedly being treated for gallstones, it was not until late in the week that the Bosnian Serb forces finally appeared to stiffen their defenses along a wide arc surrounding Banja Luka. By that time, however, the Croat-Muslim attack had already touched off an exodus of more than 85,000 Bosnian Serb refugees. Many, like Branko Japundja, 50, a wounded Serb farmer who left the hospital where he was recuperating and walked all night to escort his family from...
...Unconsoled (Knopf; 535 pages; $25), Ishiguro's first novel since The Remains of the Day, traces much the same emotional arc as its predecessor: a buttoned-up narrator hero goes through several days of experiences and memories that finally reduce him to tears. This time, though, readers may find themselves crying a good deal earlier, not out of sympathy but frustration...
...convicts cheer when a Chapman woman takes control--when one announces to a boozing boyfriend, "I'm gonna take off my kid gloves/ Put on some boxing gloves/ And knock the living daylights out of you." But she's not all whine and neurosis; the set traces an arc of anger, resolve and transfiguration. As Chapman explains to the prisoners, with an I've-been-saved smile in her voice, she finally did find true love--with a prison doctor...
Rape victim. Marauder. Murderer. Superstar! Phoolan Devi, an outcast Hindu woman, became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt alite. Part Joan of Arc, part Ma Barker, on Feb. 14, 1981, she staged her own St. Valentine's Day massacre, leading the slaughter of 22 villagers she suspected of aiding her enemies. Yet her surrender, in 1983, was on her own terms, to the cheers of 10,000 supporters. On her release from prison last year, three political parties asked her to run for office...