Word: dust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Putting the names Brideshead and Waugh on the same dust jacket may be inspired marketing. But Auberon is Evelyn's son, and this book has nothing to do with nostalgic memories of aristocrats toting Teddy bears. Brideshead Benighted offers, instead, roughly a decade's worth of the author's columns for the Spectator, a British weekly magazine. Waugh does not admire most of his countrymen, including union leaders ("oafs") and contemporary youth ("a lost generation without even the resources to amuse themselves"). He also takes potshots at the Archbishop of Canterbury, Princess Anne and a long line of politicians. Readers...
...minutes later the Soviets and their Afghan Communist allies strike back with 120-mm mortar shells that fall on a ridge to the north, sending up great plumes of smoke and dust. Soon, the well-concealed guerrillas begin to lash Barikot with heavy machine-gun fire. Barrage, counterbarrage -- a typical day in the long and ongoing siege...
...greased, Tabitha stopped smelling like an overgrown cruller, and the six-figure earnings soon became seven. "People think the muse is a literary character," says King, "some cute little pudgy devil who floats around the head of the creative person sprinkling fairy dust. Well, mine's a guy with a flattop in coveralls who looks like Jack Webb and says, 'All right, you son of a bitch, time to get to work.' " The ultimate workaholic obeyed the figure in coveralls every day, except for his birthday, the Fourth of July and Christmas. His work reflected more than the normal number...
Their song complete, the soldiers march off to the front, dressed in beige uniforms and Italian bush hats, with ostrich plumes sticking from the muzzles of their rifles to keep out the swirling dust...
...society, particularly the youth culture. While still illegal, drug use became socially acceptable in many quarters. Pot was smoked as openly as tobacco in some city parks and on street corners, while police looked the other way. Newly popular man-made chemicals like phencyclidine, better known as angel dust or PCP, drove users into violent frenzies, making the myth of wild-eyed drug fiends, which had been scoffed at by '60s college students, a horrifying reality...