Word: known
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That possibility of meaninglessness tantalizes and bedevils throughout the novel. But Rushdie's furious, organizing energy seems to mark him as an angel of coherence. He has obviously read his Garcia Marquez, his Joyce, his Thomas Pynchon. He shares with those authors the desire to assemble everything he has known and seen and make it all fit together, beautifully. In his fourth novel, Rushdie has done just that...
...current president relieves departing Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth in April. "Bill was hired because he was the best man," Ueberroth said. Insisted Los Angeles Dodger President Peter O'Malley, who chaired the search committee: "Race did not play a factor." Still, the pressure baseball has been feeling is well known...
Baker hesitates. It is well known that the U.S. is not exactly thrilled by the prospect of "E.C. '92," but a guest is present. Slowly, with his official voice in gear, the Secretary-designate rehearses the lines he will shortly repeat to the Senate during his confirmation hearings. "We've got to make sure Europe is open to all," he says. "If that means aggressively enforcing our own trade laws, so be it. I hope it doesn't come to that. It's going to take some skilled diplomacy to get the edge on that one. Tell you the truth...
...Bobby Knight has been known to say, the best offense is a strong defense...
...didn't know it was coming down to my match," Bailey said. "If I had known, I probably would have whiffed everything. I thought we had won or lost already. It really didn't click even though both teams were watching the match. I'm glad to have...