Word: cul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-serving, he now adds to his list of targets Italian best-selling writer Umberto Eco, whose latest novel, Foucault's Pendulum, is a phantasmagorical venture into the occult. "Eco," Wolfe says, "is a very good example of a writer who leads dozens of young writers into a literary cul-de-sac." Harper's plans to throw more fuel on the bonfire. Editor Lapham will devote a large part of his January issue to responses and rebuttals to Wolfe...
...also what happens when a new President takes office without an escape route from the fiscal cul-de-sac he has backed himself into. Candidate Bush's no-new-taxes vow means he will not be able to keep promises to propose spending for new programs in education, child care and the war on drugs unless he breaks other promises to protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that...
...Cul-de-Sac at Fri.-Thurs. at 9:30 p.m. Also...
Boston is an old town, its narrow streets not neat grids like Kansas City's. The streets wind, end in cul-de-sacs, curve back on themselves, disappear, intersect by the sixes and sevens at rotaries. Their direction is fluid and changing. An outsider, carefully learning that Charles Street is one way this way, returns a year later to find it that way. Overhead traffic signs are terse, grudging and lacking in true meaning. Street signs are usually placed only on cross streets, leaving unnamed the street upon which one is driving...
Arthur and his wife Rita, 50, were well liked by neighbors in the prosperous five-family cul-de-sac. Alone in their brick four-bedroom home after their three grown children moved away, the couple was involved in local civic work. Arthur had helped form the block's anti-crime program, and served as president of both a local civic league and a swim club. Recalled one neighbor: "They were an all-American family...