Word: gaunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lulling you before he sets off a firecracker -- Whango! -- right in your ear. This time his explosive is one of them mysterious strangers who sneaks into Castle Rock, Maine, scene of two other King features, Cujo and The Dead Zone. This stranger is called Leland Gaunt, and he's proprietor of the new Needful Things curiosity shop. First customer: 11-year-old Brian Rusk. The item: an autographed Sandy Koufax baseball card. The price: his soul. Whango...
Well, you wouldn't recognize the Rock once Gaunt sinks his teeth into it. The quiet little town where people drive Yugos and natter about Demi Moore turns into one hell of a burg. That's because the residents just can't stay away from needful things, buying stuff like folk medicine that mysteriously cures pain and cars that drive on no gas at all and just about anything else that can tempt greedy souls to trade away their most precious possession...
...study in contrasts, the two front runners in Poland's first-ever popular presidential election campaign could hardly be more sharply drawn. The gaunt, intellectual Tadeusz Mazowiecki moves slowly and speaks diffidently on weekends-only campaign swings that are wedged into his prime-ministerial schedule. The paunchy trade unionist Lech Walesa, on the other hand, blitzes the country with almost daily campaign meetings, haranguing opponents and sweet-talking supporters at every stop...
...Excuse me," says a tall gaunt man, tapping Voci on the shoulder. A red paisley tie hangs around his head and a brown around his neck; he carries a plastic bag from the Vassar gift shop and wears fuzzy purple mittens on his hands...
...four counts of profiting from insider trading. The Government then got Levine to implicate Ivan Boesky, a Wall Street speculator, who was fined $100 million for insider trading. He in turn agreed to help prosecutors pursue Milken, who had become the ultimate Mr. Big. (Boesky, bearded and gaunt, now resides in a Brooklyn halfway house, where he is completing a three-year prison sentence...