Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locked the gun in my car and returned to buy the ammo. The salesman showed me two types: one for target practice and hollow-point bullets that expand on impact. I was in a hurry, so I just bought one box of each. Total time spent in the store: 40 minutes...
...rounds was a logical next step that could prevent haunted individuals from committing mass murders. During the House debate, one legislator did switch his vote: Chet Edwards, a Texas Democrat and gun-control opponent whose district includes Killeen, site of last week's killings. "Suddenly, the old arguments ring hollow -- 'Guns don't kill people, people do' . . . This is one step, one reasonable, commonsense effort to put in regulations in the real world of crazed individuals and criminals...
Normality withers in this anthology, only to be reborn in grotesque form. The bleak life of a homeless woman is snuffed out through blind chance in "Zombies on Broadway," by Kaz, whose characters recall the hollow face and tortured body of the man in Edvard Munch's "The Scream." And woodcut figures ride the subway to self-immolation in the Village Voice's Mark Beyer's "The Unpleasant Subway...
...TRUE NATURE OF LOVE. Neither AIDS nor a serial killer can deflect the sexual searching of the young men and women in this punk-poetic, MTV-style thriller, full of quick verbal riffs and crosscut scenes, transferred from a Chicago hit to off-Broadway with stellar acting by hollow-smiled Clark Gregg...
Unfortunately, Melville does not always maintain this high level of credibility. For example, Donella Saunders, from the same story, is hollow and superficial. A Guyanese woman with a high-class English background, she is self-consciously eccentric and her air of "ravaged elegance" is rather unconvincing. Even worse, many of the characters have a distressing habit of prattling in a stereotyped patois reminiscent of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Oh, God, Selma, how is I goin' get money for fix me teeth...