Word: keene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...still be turning these pages. The overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture that he seems to have invented anew: keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
...have students who are very keen, and whohave quite a different background. Some areconcentrating in a science subject, such asPhysics, and are energetically doing early Irishliterature," he said...
...explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of works by "Canada's foremost living author" rarely rides on suspense. Instead, says Gray, the 81-year-old writer "entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture" of "keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
...come out on the short end of the stick against Brown. Until Saturday. In her eighth try at trapping the Bears, however, Butler emerged from a slump and racked up a game-high 17 points. It was the intangibles, her pregame speech and the rest of the team's keen sense of history, that really set the stage...
...Zedong's former physician; in Chicago. He was Mao's loyal confidant from 1954 to the Chinese leader's death in '76-an experience Li recounted in his 682-page The Private Life of Chairman Mao. Propelled by Li's attend-and-tell tales of Mao's keen sexual appetites and grotesque personal hygiene, the book shot up the best-seller list last fall. DIED. L.C. GRAVES, 76, police detective; in Kaufman, Texas. It is an enduring image: Lee Harvey Oswald walking through the basement of the Dallas police building, his upper arm gripped by a black-hatted Graves...