Word: furiousness
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That possibility of meaninglessness tantalizes and bedevils throughout the novel. But Rushdie's furious, organizing energy seems to mark him as an angel of coherence. He has obviously read his Garcia Marquez, his Joyce, his Thomas Pynchon. He shares with those authors the desire to assemble everything he has known and seen and make it all fit together, beautifully. In his fourth novel, Rushdie has done just that...
...moment came in May of 1980. Bush was charging ahead without a mathematical chance of overtaking Reagan. With the candidate on the road, Baker virtually yanked him from the race by confirming to reporters that the Bush effort in California was a scam. Bush was furious and convened a senior staff meeting in Houston. The candidate, like all candidates, could not have cared less about the math. He wanted to continue. Baker had a different concern. He knew Reagan would be "terminally ticked off" if Bush pressed ahead into California, Reagan's home state...
Puzzled outsiders and furious supporters of law and order often felt they were witness to a heist of the body politic. The immediate causes of upheaval were frequently petty. At Columbia, a protest over the university's affiliation with a war-research institute and its planned encroachment on a ghetto park turned into a six-day occupation of campus buildings. At San Francisco State University, a battle over the suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully...
When last faced with the opportunity to turn thumbs down on a salary hike, the Senate in 1987 voted 88-6 against a $12,100 increase -- fully confident that the House would save the day. After Representatives denounced the raises in furious speeches, the House also rejected pay raises in a voice vote. There was only one hitch: the debate took place after the 30-day waiting period had expired and the raises had already gone into effect...
...glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even if the game slows to a crawl, the halftime action will be fast and furious...