Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capacity for change. Few novelists in years have written as well about the ferocious fragility of family love and family life as John Irving. The World According to Garp has a protagonist?no, a hero?who breaks conventional roles as if they were a halfhearted hammer lock, who not only tends the kids while his wife works and keeps the house in order, but actually takes joy in his tasks. Pride. Fulfillment. The book was more than a smash. It was a true literary phenomenon, and there are surely very few admirers of Garp who think, as the boys...
...almost certain to be only symbolic outcries, since neither the House nor Senate is likely to heed the calls for an immediate nuclear freeze. In any case, Reagan is adamantly opposed; he believes such an arms control gambit would be a simplistic quick fix, one that would, moreover, only lock in a putative Soviet nuclear advantage...
...Falkland Islands. The weapon adjusts its aim in flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h., faster than 95% of the planes in the Syrian air force. The new Sidewinders are so sensitive that they can lock in on the heat created by air friction on a jet's surface. The Israeli Sidewinders, like most of the electronic equipment on the aircraft, are not standard U.S. issue: they have been adapted and improved in the light of experience gained by Israel's constant sorties over Lebanon...
Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...house he had to share with three mischievous younger sisters, Steven would take the standard boy's revenge: lock them in the closet and then throw in the thing they feared most. "He used to scare the hell out of them," Leah says. "When they were going to sleep, he would creep under their window and whisper, 'I'm the moon!' " But the fraternal bogeyman was also a small festival of phobias. "My biggest fear was a clown doll," he says. "Also the tree I could see outside my room. Also anything that might be under...