Word: drownings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Your brain can get out of hand," says one character in Typical (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 207 pages; $19). Another figures that "character is nothing but warts." Judging from these 23 fictions, both statements are correct. Padgett Powell's two previous books, both novels (Edisto, A Woman Named Drown), exhibited a unique gift for regional American comedy. This sparkling collection reduces his scope without limiting his style. Dr. Ordinary is anything but: "He found God with no difficulty, but locating his belief another matter." Miss Resignation "liked football and was absolutely certain that she could have been an excellent off-tackle...
...partisan brawl as Republicans and Democrats squared off over the latest update of civil rights legislation. Last week House Democrats agreed to an explicit ban on race norming as part of an effort to salvage their version of the civil rights bill. But the congressional din threatens to drown out an important debate over the value of testing and the amount of racial redress white America will tolerate...
...bombshell. Not because the offer has the remotest chance of being accepted. President Bush promptly called it a "cruel hoax," and British Prime Minister John Major redundantly labeled it a "bogus sham." But Iraq for once was pointedly not boasting about making American and other allied soldiers drown in their own blood, not spurning all talk of a cease- fire with contempt, not claiming that Kuwait is and always will be the country's 19th province...
...says James McKeown, a commercial developer whose company headquarters in Woburn, Mass., is wrapped in a huge yellow bow three stories high and 22 ft. wide. The way the soldiers die could also have an impact. If thousands are slaughtered by poison gas, the rage for revenge could quickly drown the outcries for withdrawal...
...Saturday morning in which a hungover ophthalmologist asked me to whisper. Only one thing nagged my mind after a doctor lectured me for 45 minutes on why he would never let his son enter medicine. (Every time I tried to say anything, he just raised his voice to drown...