Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tenants' pets. Like the images, the conclusion is another object added to Arenas' string, so that by the end of the novel it is as if we hold in our hands not a cohesive story, but a stack of pages held together only by a bead of glue...
...corner was a birdcage where two small doves tied to each other by their wings fluttered about. Inside a huge bottle swarmed some flies, apparently coupled by a remarkable glue. There were cockroaches and mice, all tied in pairs...
...sketchy transitional government that establishes an executive State Council and two subordinate bodies, a reconstructed parliament and an Inter-Republican Economic Committee. In tandem, and largely at the sufferance of the increasingly restless republics, the task of these organs will be twofold: to provide the glue that maintains some semblance of unity and to convince the world that there is still a there in Moscow with which to deal...
WHAT ABOUT BOB? John Candy usually plays the man who came to dinner and stayed too long (and ate too much), but this time Bill Murray is the nerd determined to stick to his psychiatrist like Krazy Glue. Murray and Richard Dreyfuss are terrific in Frank Oz's pretty good comedy of discomfort...
...This is a wonderful glue to hold together the consortium of institutions involved in Harvard Medical School," he says, since the faculty is scattered among the Medical School and the 13 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals in the area...