Word: hydes
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Frank McLynn's authoritative biography (Random House; 567 pages; $30) portrays the Scottish author of "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" as the frail, yet flamboyant hero of an extraordinary short life. An invalid born into a wealthy Victorian family ruled by a strict father, Stevenson grew into a romantic wanderer, searching for a climate his bleeding lungs could tolerate. "McLynn tells his story with grace and skill," says TIME critic John Skow. "Only a dull reader will finish this biography without heading for the library to search out a complete edition of Stevenson's marvelous...
...luck would have it, this writer was left to explain the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-Like performance of the woman's basketball team this weekend...
That set the stage for last week's production of Jekyll and Hyde Visit Bleak House. Ferguson's courtly legalisms--``Did there come a time . . .'' and ``Is it your testimony that . . .''--and his formal complaints of ``Hearsay!'' or ``Leading the witness!'' chimed very oddly with the preposterousness of his core thesis, expressed in an eerie third person: ``The evidence will show that Colin Ferguson was in fact a well-meaning passenger on the train . . . Like any other passenger, he dozed off--having the weapon in a bag. At that point someone . . . took the weapon out of the bag and proceeded...
...balanced-budget amendment will be the first major piece of legislation to come to a vote in the full House. Incoming Judiciary chairman Henry Hyde of Illinois expects to have the bill out of his committee next week and ready for floor action by Jan. 19. It will be followed in short order by a bill giving the President a line-item veto and the first round of budget cuts...
...Representative Henry Hyde (R-Illinois...