Word: clan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book of fiction in 22 years, is a rapist, mutilator and murderer. A Dark-Adapted Eye, Rendell's first under a new pen name, Barbara Vine, imagines a murder preceded by intimations of incest, infanticide and homosexual child molestation, all within the bosom of an apparently conventional and loving clan...
Experts are divided about whether the OPEC pact will ultimately hang together. Shearson's Margoshes declares flatly that "it will hold." Says John Toalster, an analyst at Hoare Govett, a London brokerage firm: "The agreement represents a watershed for OPEC." The clan will stick together, these observers conclude, because oil producers have finally realized that they have nothing to gain and everything to lose from plummeting prices...
Southern literature tends to be stamped with the obsessions of William Faulkner: doomed and crazy families, legacies of guilt and grudges. The Quick and the Dead, a first novel by North Carolina Academic Z. Vance Wilson, maintains that tradition. Wilson chronicles tribal hatred in an Alabama hill- country clan headed by a self-taught itinerant preacher, Robert Treadwell, who speaks in earthy parables and commits self-mutilation. The book begins and ends with fireball confrontations between the evangelist and his firstborn son, recalled by another son, Luke. The rest, rich in incident, sounds the depths of sexual betrayal and despair...
Summertime is marching time for the Orange Order, a secretive clan that has trooped through the streets of Northern Ireland each summer for more than 150 years to commemorate Protestant triumphs in days gone by. This year, however, the marches threaten to become protests, and the protests skirmishes. Tensions have been running high ever since last November, when British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald agreed to give the neighboring Irish Republic a limited say in Ulster affairs for the first time. As a result, Northern Ireland's 1 million Protestants, who make up roughly...
...heavy drinker. His wife, and mother of the brood, is the former Rose Marie O'Dare, Irish Catholic and a fine choice. One suspects that the Vincent bloodline had thinned since the days of the vigorous Yankee traders and that Rose Marie brought an unaffected vitality to the clan. She makes babies as easily as some people make friends; she revels in runny noses and dropped socks. Mothering is her natural passion. At 40 she nurses her new infant as the other children look on: "They watched her unbutton the nightgown and feel inside for the bosom. After fixing...