Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they held two novels "in a vault"-naturally-for posthumous publication. The rumor ran that, not wanting any literary hack to mishandle her characters, Agatha Christie had left books satisfactorily killing off her legendary sleuths, Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple. Sure enough, Poirot came to a violent end in Curtain, when it was finally exhumed and published last year...
...sewing machine wrapped and tied in sackcloth and rope), it gave Christo the base for more grandiose and original schemes. In 1969 he went to Australia and used 1 million sq. ft. of synthetic cloth to wrap a mile of rocky coastline. In 1972 he hung an orange curtain a quarter of a mile wide and 365 ft. deep across a scenic valley named Rifle Gap in Colorado...
...they have developed a voracious appetite for Western products, buying everything from consumer goods to entire factories. One result: the economic woes of the capitalist world, to which Communist planners initially thought they would be immune, by last year made themselves felt on the other side of the Iron Curtain. Inflation sharply raised the prices of the Western goods that the Communists buy, while the 1974-75 recession dried up what few Western markets had existed for Eastern European goods. So Comecon's trade deficit with the West went from $5 billion in 1974 to $12 billion...
...weeks at a luxury vacation condominium or resort at 50% below regular rates every year until 2016? Sounds like the grand prize behind the sequined curtain on some TV game show. Actually, it is a fairly typical example of the kind of arrangement available through a holiday-financing gimmick called time-sharing that is stirring interest among budget-minded vacationers...
...much Russian and Eastern European satire, an ironic curtain has descended with an unmistakable clang. But there are quieter ironies as well. They deal with human limitations, and the all too human ability to invent illusions that disguise those limitations. For example, there is brilliant Dr. Skreta, head of the spa, a slightly mad scientist who practices personal eugenics by inseminating unwitting patients with his own sperm. A rich American expatriot named Bartleff dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces...