Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mather House resident suffered minor cuts from broken glass, but managed to hold up a window and prevent it from falling 13 stories to the street below yesterday...
...role in tracking down Ames has never been reported, but many at the CIA call her the heroine of the investigation. The following excerpt from Nightmover, David Wise's new book about the Ames case, deals with Vertefeuille's story. "The CIA thought it had picked a minor leaguer, but she proved she was good enough for the majors," says Wise. "In the end, she got Ames...
...induce surfeit. After them, the Spanish still-life tradition nose-dived into academism and decor through the 18th century, with the single exception of the Madrid painter Luis Melendez (1716-80), whose massive arrays of boxes, wrinkled cheeses, copper cookware and glittering dorados or sea bream were disparaged as minor art by academic pooh-bahs and never won him the success he deserved. But other than France's Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, there was no finer still-life painter in 18th century Europe...
...necessary to know its writing was an act of heroism. For the past few years, as he recounted in A Whole New Life, Price has been almost totally incapacitated by spinal cancer. What little can be detected of this in the novel is transmuted, without self-pity, as a minor theme, the son's helplessness and fretful dreaming in his last weeks...
...that readers will not let The Promise of Rest stand alone. It is a turbulent, cross-grained story that pulls at the imagination, and that pull leads back to the earlier novels. And to an odd perception: though this is a multigenerational chronicle that follows the main and minor figures of two Southern clans from 1904 to the present, the entire saga is really about only one person, the author. The trilogy is, not far under its surface of entrances and exits, a single long soliloquy--Price's own dark, spiraling meditation, mostly baffled and gloomy, often agonized, on human...