Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...embark on a tour of unhomey rest rooms at National Airport. The public rest room has no such constituency, just a lot of people "who may be there once for three minutes, never to return." Since most people avoid commenting on the facilities, or subscribe to the polite fiction that they haven't visited them, any establishment can safely relegate public rest rooms to a dank and mingy corner. They double as storerooms or janitors' closets...
First, we must shift our defense to a multilateral partnership with our allies in Europe and East Asia, while we can still do so smoothly. Maintaining the fiction of Pax Americana not only worsens our own situation, it is dangerous for all democracy. We may soon become an unreliable and overextended ally...
...Lowell and at 29 published the best seller Boston Adventure. Other marriages and other books followed, and so did poor health and a passel of troubles, many self-inflicted. By the time her Collected Stories won the Pulitzer Prize in 1970, she had long since fallen silent as a fiction writer and would remain so right up to her death, at 63, in 1979. David Roberts' workmanlike biography generously quotes Stafford's inimitable prose voice -- elegant, tough, mordantly funny. It is a voice that is sadly neglected in today's literary scene...
...teammates when the coaches are looking the other way. Svetlana Boginskaya, 15, - the tallest on the team (a towering 5 ft. 2 in.), is the most serious, often perched on a mat between exercises with her nose in a book. Olga Strazheva, 15, has an appetite for science fiction. Svetlana Baitova, 16, totes Jack, a stuffed puppy, wherever she goes. When it comes to talk of Seoul, all playfulness falls away. For these girls it will be a grudge match against the Rumanians. "We won't give anything away," Boginskaya vows. "We won't yield, not in difficulty...
...around in the snow when a snowball hit me in the eye," explains the swimmer. "It caused a detached retina." Despite four eye operations, and against the advice of his doctors, Darnyi , returned to competition in 1984. Between his typical eleven-mile-a-day training sessions, Darnyi, a science-fiction fan, builds model spaceships and muses on his future. The big question: Should he accept one of the many offers from U.S. universities or prepare to enter Hungary's hotel-and-catering college? His decision will have to wait until he dries off after the Games...