Word: deathly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stone cast in water, the ripples of this execution spread out wide and The Vagrants - Yiyun Li's first novel after her extravagantly praised and miraculously poised prizewinning debut collection, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers - anatomizes with both precision and humanity all those touched by Shan's death...
...Shan's parents, Mrs. Gu, devastated by her loss, and Teacher Gu, bewildered by the nature and personality of the child he has fathered and retreating further into the arid haven of his intellect in order to cope with her demise. But there are less obvious people the death marks: Kai, a public announcer on a government radio station that spews out continuous propaganda; Kai's husband Han, a man on the make in the provincial government, who harbors dreams of greater influence; and Nini, a deformed girl, eldest of six daughters, who is nothing more than an unpaid, unloved...
...minutes observing the monstrosity, no one dared attempt to test its depth by crossing, even those in their best rain boots. The cause of such a huge lake? Clogged drains, below, of course. A quick clearing by FMO workers led to the pond's untimely death. No dead bodies were recovered upon draining...
Italy's worst earthquake in nearly three decades struck early Monday in the central region of Abruzzo, killing at least 207 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. As the death toll from the predawn quake rose throughout the day, the tragedy took a bitter twist as it emerged that a local seismologist had predicted a major tremor...
...potential to be performed either as a riveting commentary on the height of the AIDS epidemic and what it truly meant to live as a homosexual in this time, or as a sorry excuse for intertwining the clichéd dramatic motifs of death, abandonment, love, religion, and truth. Friday’s opening on the Loeb Mainstage—directed by Sara L. Wright ’09—overflowed with a vitality that managed to make these overdone themes appear refreshingly novel.The three-hour-long piece (schedule your dinner plans for before curtain call!) is a series...