Word: impendingness
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One way of looking at fiction, Josephine Humphreys wrote once, is to look at it as the writer trying to answer a question. Considered in this way. Harry Kondoleon's new novel,Diary of a Lost Boy, makes quite clear from the get-go what its question will be. Can...
Only a few years ago, an American scarcely could pick up a newspaper or magazine without reading about Japan's immense economic success and impending world domination.
To many Russians, Victor Chernomyrdin, 55, is the only politician besides Yeltsin with the toughness, stability and integrity of character needed to pull the post-Soviet economy out of its tailspin. To Moscow's radical democrats, however, he personifies what former Finance Minister Boris Fyodorov calls the "lifeless and illiterate...
That mix of confusion and spellbinding tension is Pinter's trademark: it is never quite clear what is happening, but whatever it is, it is urgently important. The menacing mysticism reaches a peak in No Man's Land, a series of drawing-room encounters soured by a barroom aura of...
It has all the elements of a cozy little domestic comedy: a young woman depressed by her impending marriage to a perfect twit; her mother tensely determined that the bourgeois niceties of the occasion will be punctiliously observed; his mother glumly sorry to inflict her son on anyone; and descending...