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...need to play catch-up soccer kept the visitors at a constant disadvantage. Dartmouth took the lead just two minutes into the game on a goal by striker Carol Radack, forcing Harvard to direct we've after wave of increasingly desperate charges at Dartmouth goalie Ester Ticknor...
...joint House of Representatives committee held hearings on this question two weeks ago but came up with few suggestions. The problem was recognized, but no plan of action proscribed. Meanwhile, Carol Randolph of the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) anticipates no action by the NAB to organize a nationwide standard. Congress, however, is now considering a bill that calls for a uniform poll closing time across the country. If polls were shut at 10 p.m. EST in New York, they would close at 7 p.m. PST in California...
...Joyce Carol Oates...
...flight from the everyday world they used to chronicle. In his latest novel, God's Grace, Bernard Malamud conceived of a latter-day Noah, adrift on an ark. Doris Lessing has taken an apparently irreversible leap into outer space with her multivolume chronicle of "galactic empires." Now Joyce Carol Oates has again wandered off into the never-never land of the neo-gothic romance. In Oates' case, the purpose of the excursion is parody. A Bloodsmoor Romance, like the author's 1980 Bellefleur, is intended to poke fun at gushy Victorian women novelists and such latter...
...Women gone wild, A Bloodsmoor Romance leads readers on a merry six hundred page chase after five nineteenth century sisters as they gallivant from their ancestral Bloodsmoor Valley to the Broadway stage, the lawless West the spirit world and back again. Written as a parody of a romance, Joyce Carol Oates latest novel excels in the form it spoofs. True to convention a prim but often hyperbolic narrator tells of shocking year undeniably romantic escapades with an unabashed use of italics and the results are hilarious...