Word: chapter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happy endings seem promised here, but a final chapter and postscript provide several, including the awarding last year of Japan's most prestigious literary prize to Foumi for a book about the experiences of a mother with a handicapped child. And Noah has found a place, not only in real life but in the minds of those who, thanks to his parents, have come to know...
...arms deals last week claimed a victim of a different sort. In Los Angeles, Triad America Corp., a cornerstone of the U.S. business empire of Saudi Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Khashoggi lost millions of dollars in the secret weapons sales...
Tomorrow afternoon at Dillon Pool, on the campus of Princeton University, a capacity crowd will witness the third chapter in a drama unrivaled in recent Ivy League swimming history...
Marilyn: Norma Jeane does not, however, make the mistake of being merely a feminist interpretation of Monroe's life. Barris' photographs show us a playful woman who loved to drink champagne and run on the beach. The chapter titled "Fathers and Lovers" is a gossipy look at her love life, "The Woman Who Will Not Die" attempts to decipher the enduring mania for Marilyn, and "Who Would She Be Now?" offers a speculative look at what Monroe would be like if she were alive today...
...Governor of California, Reagan built a strong administration, saw the state budget double and, says Wills, "committed the very sin he inveighed against -- government." The same imbalance of reality and myth continues during the presidency, which takes up the last and weakest portion of a 41- chapter book. Here Wills' cinematic thesis tends to fade out. "What is Star Wars," he asks rhetorically, "but another, more complex projector meant to trace, in lasers and benign nuclear 'searchlights,' the image of America itself across the widest screen of all?" But Reagan is not the inventor of the Strategic Defense Initiative...