Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city is contesting Lippmann's ruling, and until an appeals court takes up the matter next week, Brown remains at Bellevue. Koch is bitter. "God forbid this woman will go back on the street," he said. If anything happens to Brown, he warns, "the blood of that woman is on the judge's head...
...brothers escape the house of their drunken father and discover the meaning of the book's epigraph, a line from a Bruce Springsteen song, "Nothin' feels better than blood on blood." Violence pervades the novel. In the course of one night, the older brother fights with his father, his brother and grocery store bagboys, and the two brothers witness a rape and murder at a drive-in James Dean movie...
...blood that makes the two boys brothers. It is blood that is evidence of life and blood that is evidence of death...
...father tells him he is not his son, he swims the harbor looking for purification. Instead he finds himself vomitting on the other side. He lies in ditchwater and in sewage, hoping to cleanse himself. He enters a church and baptizes himself, pouring Holy Water over his gasoline-and blood-soaked body. But in the end it is his own blood that saturates his body and guides him to death...
Time has not broken the lingering connection these six generations have with the U.S. "I got only American blood in my veins, but I'm Brazilian through and through," crows ex-Farmer Claude McFadden, 90, the oldest living Confederate descendant. "Still, I've always felt a little split, like I'll never feel completely at home here." As middle-class Brazilians besieged by high inflation, most of the descendants marvel at the economic stability and the myriad modern conveniences the U.S. has to offer. "All those electric gadgets that make housework easy must give women a lot of free time...