Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Erdrich seems too eager to buy the grandiose literary line that the writer is a mythmaker rather than a storyteller. Crammed into a short, intense novel, her characters are too busy hauling symbolic freight to reveal their humanity. The concluding work in the tetralogy may bring all her rich elements together. But do not bet on it, unless Erdrich takes a crash course from Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...billion in the U.S. last year, or 17.6% of the gross national product. Delays and disruptions can quickly spread inflationary price increases through the economy. Case in point: gridlock can play havoc with the just-in-time inventory system, a popular Japanese-style management technique in which manufacturers bring in parts at the last minute rather than stockpiling large quantities...
...inside. If their music were a guessing game, you could, inside the Feelies, grab on to the vintage strains of the mesmeric Velvet Underground and strong traces of up-to-the-minute bands like R.E.M. What is fresh about the Feelies is the kind of sardonic innocence they bring to tunes like What Goes On and Undertow. Anyone who hears this new album will feel good first but think about it later...
...streets in a thunderous protest of the vote. The army moved in with tear gas and water cannons. Three people were killed, and 21 wounded. The plebiscite is actually a referendum on Pinochet's rule. A si vote would keep him in power until 1997. A no would bring open elections next year...
...news infused local residents with Texas-size optimism. "It would bring extra money to the community budget," said the suburb's Communist deputy mayor, Gilbert Ridouh. To Odile Deana, a jewelry-store sales clerk, the strike promised "work, a lot of people visiting the drilling sites and more business for us." Elf-Aquitaine cautioned that more tests are needed to determine the well's potential profitability...