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...accomplished and prolific novelist, surely knew the trouble she was making for herself in Blonde (HarperCollins; 738 pages; $27.50), a novel based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. The screen actress was already a legend at the time of her death (at age 36 in 1962), and the subsequent flood of biographies, reminiscences and analytical studies has rendered her ubiquitous in the public imagination. What can a novelist, even one working at the top of her form, add to an icon...
...kicked off the original Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in 1960 with his whimsically named Project Ozma (after the satiric Oz books). He "looked" briefly at several nearby sunlike stars in the hope that they might be orbited by planets whose inhabitants were sending out intelligible signals, like the flood of radio and TV broadcasts we've been inadvertently blasting into space for the past 80 years. ("Hey there, Alpha Centauri! Whaddya think of The Honeymooners...
...just different," she said. "If I had friends in it, I could see them outside. So we decided together to save the money." The woman who decided to retain her membership said the biggest clue to the fact that people were not rededicating this semester has been the flood of messages from the officers telling club members "it's not too late to rededicate...
...remains on the State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. A Syrian-Israeli agreement under these circumstances will be more like an absence of war. For a tangible, long-term peace to take root, the Assad regime has to go. The day Israeli goods, embassies and vacationers flood Damascus is the day that the Assad regime, which has for so long based its legitimacy largely on creating an external Israeli threat, takes its first step towards disintegration...
Therefore, according to Cranley, the Democratic National Committee is prepared to flood money and organizational support into any race where a Democratic challenger has a chance to unseat an incumbent Republican...