Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Enchanter is hardly the "dead scrap" that Nabokov called it when he first wrote it in Paris. The short novel has the appeal of the author's distinct style. It demonstrates his method of patterning fiction which, in Nabokov's words, combines "the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable...
...wonder that he tried to discourage Kelley; his life does not bear outside examination. "There's a monster in him who wants to screw the world before it screws him," said a onetime girlfriend, Actress Jacqueline Park. Kelley's exhaustively researched account supports this assessment dead...
...have been struggling in their re-election bouts. G.O.P. incumbents have been unable to establish solid leads in Washington, Idaho and North Dakota. Hawkins and Chavez trail in their races. In his campaign to replace the retiring Paul Laxalt, Nevada Republican Hopeful Jim Santini is locked in a dead heat with Democratic Congressman Harry Reid. Several contests in which Republican incumbents seemed secure -- North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin -- have narrowed in recent weeks, renewing hope for Democratic challengers. But some Democrats are also shaky: in addition to California, with Cranston's problems, three states with retiring Democratic incumbents -- Colorado, Louisiana...
...international arms market. U.S. officials hope to persuade the contras to switch from the pressure-triggered mines they have been using to explosives that have to be detonated by remote control, thereby giving the rebels control over specific targets. "Pressure mines kill too indiscriminately," says one. "Pictures of dead children don't go down well...
...even sexual fulfillment in her dogged servitude. When she renounces friends and hobbies to remain the model prisoner whose keeper is a husband with a wandering libido. When, on learning that Hubby is fooling around with someone at the office, she waits for him to come home, stabs him dead with a kitchen knife, then cleans the weapon and replaces it daintily in its holder. Edna (the quietly spectacular Martha Henry) is a neat freak who freaks...