Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beckett's career, which began when he served as an aide to James Joyce and was capped in 1969 by a Nobel Prize, can be seen as a long, inexorable process of writing himself into a corner of silence. From the start, he was profoundly uninterested in the standard material of literature: heroes and heroines, simulacra of daily reality, incidents, resolution, endings happy or otherwise. Instead, the Dublin-born author seized with Irish tenacity a single perception: reductio is always ad absurdum. At the bottom of every problem, no matter how logically pared down to essentials, lies the abyss...
...mahogany office chair with a black vinyl seat and back. There, in an old tannery known as the Slaughterhouse in the southwest corner of the Utah State Prison, sat Gary Mark Gilmore, 36, freshly shaven and wearing a black T shirt, crumpled white trousers and red, white and blue sneakers. His neck, waist, wrists and feet were loosely bound to the chair. Twenty-six feet away hung a sailcloth partition with five slits. Hidden behind the curtain stood five riflemen armed with .30-.30 deer rifles, four loaded with steel-jacketed shells, the fifth with a blank...
With 150 million Americans living in cities of 50,000 or more, the U.S. is still very much an urban nation. But the Census Bureau finds that the majority of the population has shifted toward the South and West for sun and casual living, and also for a private corner of the space that remains. All over the country, demographers have noted, the urge is to go small-out of central cities to suburbs, out of suburbs to smaller towns...
UConn held onto both the ball and its slim lead, going into a five-corner freeze until Rogers fouled Whelton at 0:56. Whelton sank both ends of a one-and-one, icing the game...
...your galoshes away. There is more bad weather around the corner. Light snow is predicted for this morning, but the National Weather Service said yesterday that it will merely be a harbinger of another storm, now over the Gulf Coast, that could belt New England with more rain, snow and sleet tonight and tomorrow...