Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson: Why then didn't it make sense to block the upper doors? That way you could have made your point while letting the diplomat leave by the door he wanted...
...tell right off when a novelist knows his way around the block. Take the first sentence of Larry McMurtry's moody, sensitive, ironic yet lightheartedly despairing new novel: "Duane was in the hot tub, shooting at his new doghouse with a .44 Magnum." The Jamesian restraint of the language -- not "Blam, blam, blam, wood chips glinted in the dusty air," but a dreamlike, almost passive kind of doghouse blasting -- foreshadows subtle stuff. The hero, we sense, is a country boy (the name Duane, and the implication that there is enough vacant acreage behind the doghouse so that stray bullets...
...Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity, he has a right to go free as soon as his doctors and the court agree that he no longer poses a danger. But the Government, which would like him to stay locked up, last week went to court to block the Easter excursion. Each new privilege, it fears, is a step leading inexorably to Hinckley's eventual release. "He shot four individuals, and to us he is still a threat," says Secret Service Spokesman Richard Adams...
...living in Greenlawn, N.Y., having become a citizen in 1960, nine years after entering the U.S. In 1981, however, his citizenship was revoked after a court determined that he had lied about his wartime activities to immigration officials. The U.S. Supreme Court will shortly decide whether to block his deportation temporarily. If it refuses to do so, Linnas, 67, will probably soon be on a plane to the U.S.S.R. There his execution is very probable, though the Soviets may go through the motions of a new trial...
Wedtech' s widening web of corruption is an urban morality tale. -- The Government tries to block an outing by John Hinckley...