Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"But this club [Harvard] is pretty good. They impress me as a team with a lot of character. We gave them all they could handle tonight, and they handled it," he said.
EMILY Stephen Metcalfe's farce at San Diego's Old Globe Theater slyly sent up contemporary mores and materialism. Madolyn Smith's beguiling performance gave the self-absorbed yuppie title character an unlikely likability.
An enigmatic character from Ohio, Hall, 49, was arrested Dec. 12 in a restricted military area 13 miles northeast of Managua. Sandinista officials claimed last week that he had been carrying maps in his socks of military installations at the time of his arrest. The Nicaraguan government announced that, like...
A great many mysteries feature journalists, largely because a great many mystery writers got their literary start at newspapers. Few have chronicled the freewheeling snoop as extensively, or as comically, as Gregory Mcdonald, Edgar winner and former arts and humanities editor of the Boston Globe, in his series about the...
Some American mystery writers pay homage to the past masters of the craft by setting their stories in Britain. The most prominent is Martha Grimes, a sometime teacher of fiction at Johns Hopkins, who ironically was unable to get her work published in Britain until now. Her current offering, I...