Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would have groaned, or said something quite rude about such stale expressions. He was, after all, capable of describing himself as "intrinsically disheveled." Worse still, Donaldson seems only dimly aware of the discipline and artistry that went into Cheever's fiction. Two early stories, the biographer writes, "were deeply felt semiautobiographical tales populated by characters that the author (and hence the reader) clearly cared about." If "caring about" characters were truly a recipe for literary success, the world would be awash with masterpieces...
...children in a handsome four-bedroom brick house in Russell, Ky., a quiet neighborhood less than a mile from company headquarters. Williams, who lived nearby, frequently traveled to New York City and Washington as Ashland's executive in charge of corporate lobbying. In 1983, however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle Eastern government officials to obtain crude supplies. Before long, McKay and Williams were fired, and their comfortable lives began to come apart. Unable to find jobs in the industry, they...
...deals with the budget squeeze on the Pentagon that Carlucci may make his influence felt beyond the final year of the Reagan Administration. His opening cost-cutting moves have by no means been adequate to the size of the problem. Nonetheless, they have won him bipartisan respect. Says Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "He inherited a nightmare at the Defense Department, and he has shown exemplary leadership by turning it into merely a bad dream. He gets absolutely the highest marks...
...haven't felt so worked out in years," smiles the willowy Twinka Thiebaud, a caterer in Los Angeles who abandoned her mountain bike and health club when she was told that gardening might work just as well. Unlike a jog or a sit-up, she found, gardening is a purposeful exercise, a lung-cleaning, muscle-toughening activity that also decorates her house and stocks her pantry. "Every visit to the garden is the same," she says. "I'm just wiped out in a wonderful...
...pageant was slated to be the city of Beijing's first beauty contest since the 1949 revolution, and students, dancers, even nurses from the People's Liberation Army rushed to sign up as contestants. Communist Party hard-liners, however, apparently felt that bourgeois tendencies were getting out of hand. Television coverage of the event was canceled. Instead, 40 quarter-finalists assembled last week before a sprinkling of spectators in an austere union hall for what was dubbed a tea party. Rather than choose a single Miss Beijing, the pageant organizers honored twelve "outstanding contestants who left a relatively deep impression...