Word: expression
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those momentous political events, Daniloff, the center of the storm, reached back into art for a poem by Mikhail Lermontov written almost 150 years ago for another world and circumstance. Grant that it was more diplomatic of Daniloff to quote Lermontov's exasperation with Mother Russia than to express his own. Still, it is curious that one would articulate feelings about so immediate and politically charged an event by using a form associated with indirection and repose...
...novel, It (Viking; $22.95), Stephen proves once again that he is the indisputable King of horror, a demon fabulist who raises gooseflesh for fun and profit. At 39, he seems to be the country's best-known writer. When he appeared on an American Express commercial to ask onlookers "Do you know me?," the answer was obvious: Of course, they did. His face, sometimes . bearded, now clean shaven, appears on most of the 20-odd books written under two names. More than 60 million of them have been in distribution worldwide, including two volumes -- Carrie and The Dead Zone -- that...
This sort of story was not supposed to happen to privileged children who command the city with their lusty self-assurance; who shop at Benetton's and Bergdorf's, have plenty of style, plenty of clothes; who do not leave home without American Express. But they do leave home. Breezy, noisy, they lope about the fashionable streets like flocks of orphans in Brazil or in Beirut, like the earth's poorest children -- hanging out, swooping into saloons where no one looks twice at the doctored ID cards; the kids' money is good. Don't blame the saloonkeepers, say the sociologists...
ONCE AGAIN, students and faculty express frustration as Harvard's gates shut out another young scholar. "Tenure Rejected," reads the inscription at the top, "seek ye employment elsewhere." And without further explanation, one more Harvard junior professor hits the road...
Parrot described a three-point date rapescenario: a) a woman is at a house party and a mangrabs her, b) she does not express her distaste,and c) they wind up in an isolated place...