Word: curious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Give John Fowles credit for bravery. A Maggot, his seventh work of fiction, is an unusual and consciously risky book. The title alone may discourage the curious (and give booksellers the willies). In a brief prologue, Fowles explains that he is using the word maggot in the obsolete sense of whim or quirk, but that won't help matters much. And what will readers make of such Fowlesian whims as building his plot around questions to which he never provides the answers? Or resting his conclusion on an assumed familiarity with the Shakers, that little-known sect of puritanical Protestants...
There are about 100 professional triathletes. Two of the top rated, Scott Molina and Joanne Ernst, answered questions from sincerely curious amateurs the day before the Chicago race...
...days later that threat became reality when two car bombs blew up in predominantly Muslim West Beirut. The next day the explosion of a small stick of dynamite tossed from a passing car lured curious people into Saddun Square in the northern port of Tripoli. The dynamite charge was deadly bait; a booby- trapped car in the square exploded, killing 45 and wounding...
Maybe the thought of splitting up these curious bedfellows isn't so hot. Besides, who would want to ruin 350 years of marital bliss...
...maybe not so curious. Spielberg has that tonic effect on a lot of people. Prowling the bustling Amazing Stories set in his blue baseball cap, brown leather bomber jacket, salmon-colored jeans, pink socks and gray running shoes with SPIELBERG stamped on the heels, the Mogul of Magic looks just old enough to be the classmate-coach at a college touch-football scrimmage. He has time for everyone, with a few jokes in between: "TV stands for Tender Vittles. That's what we're givin' 'em, folks, Tender Vittles." Spielberg's noncombative vitality infects everyone he works with. Says Richard...