Word: eva
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eva Is Inside Her Cat (1948), a beautiful, hypersensitive woman senses herself dissolving into death and searches the house for some creature that can contain her spirit: "No. It was impossible to incarnate herself in the cat. She was afraid of one day feeling in her palate, in her throat, in all her quadruped organism, the irrevocable desire to eat a mouse." What finally happens and how long it takes to occur are saved for a not very surprising conclusion...
...Archives and photographs by Jonathan Wallen. Presidential papers go back to George Washington; State Department records to Revolutionary War naval prize cases; census records to the first one, in 1790. There are Mathew Brady's photographs, and Walker Evans' too, and confiscated photo albums once kept by Eva Braun. Patents go back further than Eli Whitney's cotton gin (1794), which was so simple to copy that Whitney made no money from it. Abraham Lincoln got a patent for a device to float boats over shoals (never used), and Samuel Clemens, who wrote real books as Mark...
...government's plan to have the case against Ver, and 25 others named by the investigating board, tried in a tribunal that normally deals with graft and corruption offenses. The legislators called instead for the creation of a special court of retired justices and independent citizens. Said Assemblywoman Eva Kalaw: "The murder of Senator Aquino is not simply a case of graft. It is a high crime...
...left-of-center Committee on Central America, which opposes United State involvement in Nicaragua and El Salvador, has also seen its membership increase to 50 from just 15 last year, said spokesman Eva Harris...
...earned much favor in Western eyes. All that those mullahs and ayatullahs seemed to want was to make trouble and pray. Naipaul's report on this journey was written more in anger than sorrow, and the formula that he had earlier used to criticize Argentina (The Return of Eva Perón) or his ancestral homeland (India: A Wounded Civilization) began to seem a trifle predictable: the author regrets to find yet another swatch of the Third World behaving in veddy bad taste...