Word: inserts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martyrdom to art. What gives it weight here is a pair of short stories he writes about Shakespeare. They form the opening and closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify Shakespeare's authorship of the plays. The scholar meets...
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was coming to Washington at the end of February. Lawrence Eagleburger, whom Haig had designated Assistant Secretary for European Affairs, managed to insert a clear-cut endorsement of the 1979 decision into the text of remarks that Reagan would make during a public appearance with Thatcher. Eagleburger, a career diplomat and former aide to Henry Kissinger, was, like Haig, concerned with reassuring the Europeans that the new Administration felt bound to preserve a certain amount of continuity in U.S. policy. The ploy worked. Now the President had committed his Administration to following both tracks, deployment...
...rise, on top, or tobogganing toward his destiny, Tony is always the same: a ruthless, fearless, utterly amoral slug. Insert him in the chamber of a .45 and he will blast off into your enemies. Cross him and cross yourself; he will perform your last rites just for fun. His swaggering sense of invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony...
With a minimum of help from Orza and Rusnak, Fridkin showed, using Patty Pelvis, that men too can insert diaphragms...
Marine sentries who had not been allowed to insert ammunition in their weapons three weeks ago now stand guard with fully loaded guns. Some of those who had been based in Beirut were being billeted on American ships and ferried ashore by helicopters. Others were hard at work building new fortifications. Most guard posts were being reinforced and rearmed. Six-foot-high mounds of dirt, rows of tar-filled steel drums, sandbags and concertina wire blocked off the entrance to the Marine compound. Ironically, the little-used route through the parking lot that had been followed by a suicide bomber...