Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...listening--are less likely to split up, advocates of marriage classes contend that giving teens these tools early could eventually curb the divorce rate. Or at least dissuade sweethearts from marrying rashly. Ranging from a few weeks to a semester, the courses attract both singles and dating couples. Says author Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project: "In a consumer society where people have the facts about models of cars or refrigerators, it's only fair to give them the facts about marriage...
Hence the eerie popular appeal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a.k.a. Hannibal the Cannibal, who made his first, cameo appearance in Thomas Harris' vivid thriller Red Dragon (1981) and then assumed a more sustained role in the author's The Silence of the Lambs (1988). Anthony Hopkins' 1991 Oscar-winning portrayal of Dr. Lecter in the film adaptation of Silence gave the fictional character an iconic image: cold blue eyes in a face tightly restrained by a muzzle designed to prevent impulsive nipping of nearby humans...
...some hideous things, but do we really want to see him tortured to death by that creep Verger? For long, long stretches in the middle of the novel, Harris himself seems to be of two minds on that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there and set a trap that he cannot possibly escape. Guess what happens...
DIED. KENNETH S. DAVIS, 86, historian and tireless biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Manhattan, Kans. The author of books on Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower as well, he had just completed the fifth volume of his prizewinning life of F.D.R...
...Buruma is the author of The Wages of Guilt and, most recently, Anglomania