Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...haven't been this nervous since I took the bar exam," Mary Margaret Oliver, assistant professor of Law at Boston College, exclaimed last night as the tight race wore...
More pertinent, perhaps, is the fact that a new poll out last week gives the Tories a 14.8% lead over the Laborites -more than double what it was a month ago. With that figure to encourage her, Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher is aiming at leading Britain's next government rather than playing second fiddle in a Callaghan-led coalition...
...Margaret doesn 't care...
...escape works for a while and she gets to Italy, but her life stubbornly continues "to spread, to get flabby, to scroll and festoon like the frame of a baroque mirror." Significantly, the same might be said of Margaret Atwood's writing in Lady Oracle. The novel does not develop; it meanders, circling around and turning in on itself - letting its contours be defined by the chaos of the heroine's psyche. Italicized chunks of Joan Foster's latest gothic romance pop up just when one is expecting the next chapter in her life. The reader...
Crooked Seams. After writing Lady Oracle, Margaret Atwood, like Joan, may have wondered whether she "should have taken it to a psychiatrist instead of a publisher." Fortunately, she did not. For if Atwood's last novel, Surfacing, was her basic black dress of a novel - trim, taut and meticulously crafted - then Lady Oracle is successful motley, a striking work made out of bright patches with all the crooked seams showing...