Word: bulleting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Though a bullet killed Fred Cowan, it was his extreme prejudice that really did him in. One wonders how those on Cowan's subhuman level can survive without killing somebody. Cowan could not. Maybe all bigots should realize this...
Perhaps such unskippable revelations fail to make your heart throb. Well, let us peruse the headlines of the Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails...
...American couple scoffingly laughed in reply and dismissed it all as nonsense. Clearly satisfied by the Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...
...With Bullet Park (1969) and The World of Apples (1973), Cheever took middle-class innocence and evil about as far as possible. What, after all, are the transgressions of alcohol, adultery and the idolatries of affluence when judged against the world's unrelenting slaughter and injustice? Cheever's visions of guilt, despair and hope clearly needed a more extreme situation. For his new novel, he has found one in the image of a modern penal institution...
...most sought-after "wiremen," or electronic eavesdroppers, in the East, supplying bugging and recording devices to clients on both sides of the law. But on Jan. 20 Chin's tape ran out. He was found crumpled in a hallway near his West Side Manhattan workshop with six bullet holes in his head...