Word: hiatus
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...science fiction? In the 70s, readers were inundated with novels by giants of the genre: Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and scores of others. But bookstore shelves have grown barer and the names rarer. Even so, a handful of practitioners show that this may be merely a hiatus before the renaissance...
...reader follows his progress from the beginning of the end of the Beatles to the release of Double Fantasy in 1980 and his death shortly thereafter. In between are fascinating accounts of Lennon as peace activist, of his light to remain in the U.S. and of his five-year hiatus as a "househusband...
Students who showed up for the first meeting of General Education 176, "Business in American Life," probably didn't except to see 300 other students there too. But section leaders for the ever-popular course, which was returning after a year's hiatus, knew better...
...denies their significance. Of the rape case, he says that as a lawyer in a private firm, he had an obligation to take on the request. Of the circumstances surrounding his transition from the ethics commission to polities, he notes that the law only requires a one year hiatus between appointed and elected office...
...into the larger world of grownup concerns," says Trudeau. "The trip from draft beer and mixers to cocaine and herpes is a long one, and it's time they got a start on it." The cartoonist would like to put some distance between the reasons for his hiatus and those of his Pulitzer-prizewinning colleague Jeff MacNelly, 34, who gave up his editorial-page turf in 1981, only to return earlier this year. "This is simply a lull in the action," says Trudeau. "It is not, repeat, not, a mid-life crisis...