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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same feeling from Goodman's stories, which are filled with faceless characters whose lives are enmeshed in bizarre and often unclear ways...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Web of Character and Culture | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...Allegra Goodman...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Web of Character and Culture | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

THERE is something about Allegra Goodman's collection of short stories, Total Immersion that reminds me of my grandmother. When my grandmother, who is from the South, tells a story, you hear about the person's relatives and the relatives' relatives, and their relatives...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: The Web of Character and Culture | 8/18/1989 | See Source »

...success when it tried using more conventional forces to hit back at terrorists. When Jimmy Carter dispatched Marine helicopters to rescue the embassy hostages in 1980, the result was wreckage in the desert. Bombing runs over Lebanon in 1983 resulted in the capture of a naval aviator, Lieut. Robert Goodman, who was later retrieved by Jesse Jackson. Only the snatching of the Achille Lauro hijackers and perhaps the 1986 bombing of Libya could be considered effective in reducing terrorist activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Not Again: A grisly image of a dead hostage outrages the U.S. | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...Navy attack planes are shot down over Lebanon. One pilot is killed; Lieut. Robert Goodman is captured by Syrian forces (a month later, he is released). Later that day, nine Marines are fatally wounded during a heavy-artillery attack on their observation post near Beirut airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Undeclared War | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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