Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark Snyder insisted that Laura's story was "a bunch of garbage." He denied having known of her father's spying or having made any blackmail threats. He contended that Laura knew of Christopher's whereabouts and had been free to visit...
...entire western Maine region was lashed with the most vicious thunderstorms I have ever seen." The novella-length story is an exercise in escalating gruesomeness, and the urgency and awkwardness of the narrative lend credence to the preposterous. So does the setting, a supermarket where a random bunch of shoppers have been trapped by what may be the end of the world. Familiar brand names anchor the incredible; a flying monster invades the store and is set on fire by the beleaguered defenders, finally crashing "into the spaghetti sauces, splattering Ragu and Prince and Prima Salsa everywhere like gouts...
They split us up into teams of 20, 16 teams in all, and the next day we get to interrogate the suspects. They are played by a bunch of writers like Westlake and some people on the hotel staff. In between the interrogations, the writers talk to us. Now a guy like myself didn't just fall off the turnip truck. I mean, I caught on right away they were hawking their books. I liked some of it, though. For instance, Martin Cruz Smith, the guy that wrote Gorky Park, was asked whether the movie Gorky Park followed the book...
...Like the Brady Bunch...
...vocational aspirations, she says. But thoughts of a euphoric motherhood were shattered for the women, "because as soon as they became mothers they discoverd that being poor, minority, single and having a baby was not the same thing as being a middle class white women like in the Brady Bunch," Rosegrant says...