Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone's pretty shocked. Details are sketchy at the moment," Doggett said. "Everyone just wants more information, and until there's more information no one knows how to react except with sadness. We're all kind of in the dark...
...have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those of Charlie and Nancy's. I thought I was watching a later, less effective incarnation of Woolf, except that there is one surprising twist: the second couple, Leslie (Kenny Kelleher) and Sarah (Nicole Dufrense), are green sea creatures...
...cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either clothing or a blanket to protect himself from the razor wire) and escaped into the nearby forest...
...leaves are down and wet enough to muffle bootsteps. Color gone from everything, except from larches and pines and, if it counts as color, the chipped-porcelain white of birches, ghosty in November dusk. It is just cold enough and bleak enough to call up a tribal recollection: an imminence of winter death in the air and desperation for warm meat to survive--the Neolithic memory that makes hunting poignant...
...Except the prose. "I rode towards Inkerman with my chin buried in my shirt, smelling myself for warmth," Dr. Potter recalls as the novel marches toward its final, appalling snapshot. "Midst the dirt and the staleness I detected the frail scent of cornflowers." Like the unblinking young Myrtle, forced to pose for a picture with a dead man, Bainbridge faces the most shadowy aspects of human nature head on, and demands that her readers do the same...