Word: magnums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only the work would tell, and that was invisible. Until this month. At the age of 61, Brodkey has at last released his magnum opus, The Runaway Soul. Physically, it is the long-awaited Big Book. Whether The Runaway Soul deserves 835 pages and a price tag of $30 is another matter. For if this is not the Emperor's New Novel, neither is it Remembrance of Things Past...
...Rosovsky, despite his impatience, must have learned something from his second tenure as dean. Less than two years after releasing his magnum opus, word has it "the owner" is planning a sequel...
...chiropractor who sparked Robert's interest in the profession, sensed how deeply withdrawn he was. "I called him Bob and treated him like a pal," says Mueller, "trying to coax him out of his shell." Once Robert invited him out to the farm to practice firing his .45-cal. Magnum. "I was struck by this mild young man's fascination with guns," recalls the chiropractor. "He kept shooting at trees as if they were people. That should have been a warning...
...zone is the largest fleet of spy satellites ever arrayed. There are at least seven different types of "birds" passing over the gulf, ranging from sharp-eyed Keyhole photo-reconnaissance satellites, which can spot an object the size of a football from 500 miles, to the eavesdropping Magnum, which monitors enemy radio communications using antennas the size of baseball diamonds...
...rest of the MCA entertainment giant to Matsushita Electric Industrial for $6.1 billion. How could he, they asked, sell to foreigners the studio that made To Kill a Mockingbird, Jaws, E.T., Born on the Fourth of July and Back to the Future? The home of TV heroes Magnum, Columbo, Jim Rockford, Sonny Crockett and even the Beaver? The company that runs the lodgings and jitneys in Yosemite Park? In Hollywood, some moviemakers wondered whether industrialists in Osaka would now censor Hollywood's ideas. Even the Bush Administration raised some objections to the deal...