Word: dawned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ghastly Dinner Party, "an unsparing delineation of the worm-eaten psyche of modern man as exemplified in the subcutaneous motivations propelling the social lives of urban people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great leveler. There are also the usual convoy of country-club dreadnoughts and assortment of foibles...
...Iceland had a glorious dawn, and has lain in twilight ever since," wrote British Historian James Bryce after an 1872 visit to the island. "It is hardly possible that she should again be called on to play a part in history." This week, however, Iceland's very remoteness has thrust it onto center stage. President Reagan reportedly chose Reykjavik over London for this meeting to minimize distractions. The driving force behind this superpower outing, according to both Soviet and U.S. officials, is "less is best." In attracting the two leaders, Iceland's spartan isolation may have been its major selling...
...better or worse, his warm, folksy presence helped soften the newsy face of post-dawn television, but in recent months the corridors at ABC's Good Morning America were rife with rumors that David Hartman was quitting or being fired because of deflated ratings and his inflated salary. Last week the network ended the suspense by announcing that Hartman will be developing special programs dealing with "important issues" and will be gradually phased out of G.M.A. "It's a turning point for me, personally and professionally," said Hartman. "Changing the focus of my work to prime time will allow...
WASHINGTON--A disabled Soviet nuclear submarine sank east of Bermuda before dawn yesteday, the Pentagon announced. Sources said all the crew were "presumed" to have escaped...
...long before dawn on Aug. 26, Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, and Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, strolled into New York City's Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Something happened between them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder...