Word: daringness
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McInerney's acuteness as a social critic remains intact (a late '70s dinner party is said to have taken place "just before spaghetti became pasta"), as does his occasionally tart way with language. Impressive too is the quiet way in which Patrick, the narrator, finally comes to terms with his...
Such Kennediana can enhance appreciation of the author's world without end, but it is not required. Corsage is a self-contained tragicomedy realized in perfectly pitched prose that reveals some of the nobler and most of the baser elements in human nature. In the first of two parallel plots...
MISSING. WILLIAM COLBY, 76, former CIA director. Daring World War II intelligence operative, controversial overseer of Vietnam-era covert activities, Colby was an ironic choice to restore the CIA's reputation in the post-Watergate era. Hopes that he will be found alive have dimmed since the discovery of his...
HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right...
DIED. TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA, 67, director; of cancer; in Mexico City. In Castro's Cuba he created daring films such as Strawberry and Chocolate (1993), a portrait of a gay Cuban, and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968), an ironic view of the revolution.