Word: belovedness
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As captain he revolutionized the game, urging his team to score runs faster and instilling a relentlessly savage will to win. He led Australia to a one-day World Cup trophy, a record 16 consecutive test victories and won almost three out of every four tests in which he was...
Another man with visions: he can see death coming but is powerless to stop it. Vaudeville mindreader John Triton (Robinson, in the first of two haunted Woolrich roles) has presentiments of doom for a child playing with fire, a newsboy heading into traffic, his own fiancee, her eventual husband. All...
When Fatou Diome handed a copy of her first novel to her beloved grandmother in Senegal, the response was tepid. For the illiterate older woman, stories are something you tell, not write. "She's happy for me," Diome explains, "but she doesn't really understand." The French, however, know a...
Tan believes in real ghosts, like the kind that haunted her remodeled San Francisco attic and needed to be exorcised by a professional (as she writes in Room with a View, New Kitchen and Ghosts). That belief, like so much else, was bequeathed by her mother. Daisy consulted a Ouija...
Still, Poe's candidacy spooked the business community. The last presidential election was won by another film star, Joseph Estrada, who was run out of office 21/2 years later by a People Power demonstration. Like Estrada, Poe is weak on policy and platform-he has none yet-but is beloved...