Word: beare
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...fiction contains six pieces, four of them somewhat longer than the other two. It is Dubus' main title that calls for scrutiny. The Last Worthless Evening is not taken from any of the works included in the book; it alludes instead to a passage from William Faulkner's The Bear that amounts to a dirge for man's despoliation of the New World. In the past, Dubus has called his collections names such as Finding a Girl in America (1980) and The Times Are Never So Bad (1983). Now, apparently, they...
People didn't buy it, I guess. Perhaps it has dawned on the masses that, after six years in office, Reagan and the Republicans bear some responsiblity for their policies. The trick for the Dems in 1988 will be to come up with some alternatives to the G.O.P., not just run against...
...filed a $2 million lawsuit in 1983 against Kelley, author of the tattletale biography Jackie Oh!, even before she had begun writing this book. His claim was unceremoniously dropped after a year of blustering, but it is no wonder that he tried to discourage Kelley; his life does not bear outside examination. "There's a monster in him who wants to screw the world before it screws him," said a onetime girlfriend, Actress Jacqueline Park. Kelley's exhaustively researched account supports this assessment dead...
When East German Communist Party Leader Erich Honecker, 74, and Chinese General Secretary Hu Yaobang, 71, got together last week in Peking, it was a little like a school reunion. There were bear hugs, "fraternal kisses" and reminiscences of the good old days. "I haven't seen you in 33 years," said Hu as he embraced the East German party chief in Peking's Zhongnanhai compound. Ho- necker presented Hu with a photograph taken during their last meeting at a Communist youth congress in Rumania 33 years...
...addition to causing AIDS and flu, viruses have brought the scourges of smallpox, yellow fever and polio. They bear responsibility for many of the familiar rashes of youth -- chicken pox, measles, rubella -- as well as such disparate disorders as the common cold, gastroenteritis, herpes, shingles, warts and mononucleosis. Viruses are known to cause at least one form of human cancer and are prime suspects in several other kinds of malignancies. Just last week Dr. Robert Gallo of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., announced that he and his team had isolated a new virus that may cause certain kinds...