Word: boatman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no shooting this night. The dance ended promptly at midnight. The crowd, inspired by Deputy Sheriff Klingemann's quiet presence, downed the last of some 700 cans of beer sold during the evening and melted away peaceably. Shouting erupted upstream when the returning Mexicans found that their boatman had tied up the rowboat on the far side of the river and gone to bed. The problem was resolved when a young man rolled up his trousers and waded across to bring the boat back to the U.S. side. By 1:30 a.m. there were no human sounds...
...Honored Dead, "we see Eddie's corpse and pieces of another young body in plastic bags. And the protagonists inflict plain as well as suffer it. In "Hollow," the young man Buddy shoots a doe and indressing it cuts into" a swimming lump" an unborn fawn. The boatman in "A Room Forever" knows that he is physically hurting the young girl, "a kid playing whose, "who offers herself to him, but takes her just the same. Brutality isn't used for cheap thrills, though, but rather to sharpen the reader's awareness that injury and cruelly are facts of life...
...Mark," the woman Reva, having lost both her parents at once, marries a dull, insensitive man whom she ends up despising. She tries to hold on to shattered family and love by continuing an incestuous relationship with her brother Clinton, dreaming of him coming to her "not in his boatman's clothes, but as a naked Indian hiding in the pawpaw tunnels. "The writing is lyrical but is always darkened by tragedy and disappointment. At the end of the story, Reva meditates by the lock house in which she and Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked...
...professional policeman. Until his political appointment to the KGB in 1967, Andropov's career had been in government or party service. The son of a railway worker, he was born in 1914 in the village of Nagutskoye in the northern Caucasus. At times a telegraph operator and boatman on the Volga River, Andropov began his political career at 22, when he became an organizer for the Young Communist League. After serving as a political commissar on the Finnish front during World War II, he worked in a series of party jobs, gradually gaining a reputation as an expert on Eastern...
...daughter Irina is married to Actor Alexander Filipov, who has performed in a number of avant-garde productions at Moscow's Taganka Theater. It is through Filipov that Russian artists and theater people have sometimes caught a glimpse of the unofficial Andropov. At theater parties, the former Volga boatman likes to join in hearty renditions of Russian songs. Andropov also has a dry sense of humor. One Moscow actor who chanced to be seated across a dinner table from Andropov related how the then secret-police chief reached across, the table to offer him a glass of cognac. When...