Word: hermitic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protestants and Catholics are thriving in the "Hermit Kingdom...
...some daringly "literary" dialogue and fashions a full portrait of Gowan, who was a supporting character in the novel. But Reuben's prize jackanapes is Tom Conti. This delightful English actor (TV's The Norman Conquests) uses all his honed tools-the dimples, the fluty voice, the hermit-crab walk, the little-boy eyes-to steal every scene just by being in it. Petty and poetic, desperate and delightful, Conti's Gowan is the funniest portrayal of a down-on-his-art genius since Alec Guinness's Gulley Jimson in The Horse's Mouth...
Despite such public grandeur, the modern nation of 20 million strikingly conforms to Korea's ancient reputation as the "Hermit Kingdom." Though the library boasts a capacity of 30 million volumes, it has only four listings under "United States," the most recent a 1975 edition of U.S. Pharmacoepia. No foreign publications are on sale in Pyongyang. And at the Potonggang, the capital's newest hotel, foreigners are kept under almost constant surveillance...
...maverick ways. NOBODY'S MAN BUT YOURS his billboards proclaim. But that is just the problem, retorts his rival, four-term Democratic Congressman Toby Moffett: "Nobody's man is part of nobody's plan." Weicker is so independent, suggests Moffett, that he is a political hermit devoid of effectiveness...
...began a week ago Saturday. Police discovered the skeletal remains of two, or possibly three, men in an abandoned well in the woods near Blum, in north Texas. Arrested on suspicion of murder: Jerry Van Pendley and Henry Burton Merrill, a hermit and trapper. Then, on Monday morning, in a Dallas suburb, Truck Driver John Parrish, 46, after an argument with employers over $1,600 in wages, went on a rampage, fatally shooting six people and wounding four others at three places where he had worked. He was finally killed in a Shootout with police. A day later, Junett Bryant...