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...dug in and began to write in Texas, McCarthy's published work remained a hard slog for readers who couldn't cut through his syntactical thornbush, but in 1979 he brought out Suttree, apparently the last book set in the South he had in him, and it was rough, gnarly, funny as hell and, for the first time, accessible. Here is the novel on the Big Question...
...beach, there was no standing around. We tried using the fold-up bikes we'd trained on for two years. But the rubble on the roads made the whole thing impractical. After about three miles, we were ordered to stack them up in a heap. We dug slit trenches the first night in a churchyard; Jerry was maybe 1,000 yds. away. When we tried to negotiate with a local farmer to buy some eggs, he was mystified by our Quebec French and finally asked in English, 'What do you want?' He had been a steward on the French liner...
...children as they fled toward the sea and their fishing boats. Because many bodies were lost at sea, the observers could not give an exact death toll, but witnesses claimed that at least 28 people had died. Soldiers hastily buried some victims in shallow graves that were soon dug up by pigs and dogs...
...aides late last week.) meeting.) The Fed is on firmer ground, however, in its reported belief that too much of the recent economic growth has been fueled by cheap credit. Unable to stretch stagnant earnings far enough to buy the things they wanted, many consumers turned to borrowing or dug into savings. Mark Zandi of Regional Financial Associates, an economic forecasting firm, figures credit-card, auto and personal loans outstanding rose 7% by the end of February over a year earlier, while the personal-savings rate over the three months ending in February, averaged a fat, round zero. Consumers caught...
Unfortunately, the few hundred afarensis bone fragments scientists have dug up over the past 20 years have been too few and too fragmentary to advance the argument very far in either direction. That is why Lucy's Grandson is a breakthrough. Says Walker: "We've had parts of afarensis skulls from different individuals, but now we know what a single skull looks like, and we have the proportions correct...