Word: dark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most powerful force known to humankind, the sex drive appears unstoppable, even to many good Christian college students. Intelligent people will risk pregnancy, disease and shame for an orgasm. Recent Earth Day posters take this for granted, urging us to "Shower with a friend" and "Do it in the dark...
...peculiar and intriguing. The question he poses is seldom what will happen next; for example, he spills the beans quickly that Marion will reappear in the story 37 years after it begins. But this information is strictly between author and reader; the characters, realistically enough, are left in the dark. As Ruth begins imagining her fourth novel, about an unhappy love affair, she hits on a rule that clearly guides her creator: "The reader should anticipate the boyfriend's awfulness, but the woman writer doesn't see it coming." Reading A Widow for One Year is largely a matter...
...what about the costs? We all have a dark side. What is yours...
Christopher Reeve says his mother gave up hope in the first dark hours after his paralyzing fall from a horse and urged doctors to pull the plug. "They told her to calm down, to wait and see what would happen," Reeve writes in his just-published (by Random House) memoir, "Still Me," which recounts how he battled back from the May 1995 riding accident that severed his spinal cord. Reeve, 45, writes of how he, too, almost gave up hope, telling his wife, Dana, "Maybe we should let me go." She persuaded the "Superman" actor to go on by responding...
...Which means that Iraq could be about to play games once more with the U.N. Official Iraqi newspapers are making dark threats of sanctions-busting, while foreign minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf told the New York Times Sunday that "trade has already started." Whether that means Iraq is selling oil illegally, risking another Gulf conflict, al-Sahaf wouldn't say. But bluster or otherwise, the timing of his statement was no accident. The Security Council can consider itself duly warned...