Word: monstrously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author's vampire tales, have worked brilliantly. We're absolutely convinced, for instance, that Rice's star, the blond, handsome vampire Lestat, is exactly the 200-year-old bloodsucker he claims to be. He was the dark eminence in Rice's first chronicle, Interview with the Vampire, and his monstrous self- fascination has taken over succeeding narrations. Lestat is something of a windbag, alternately luxuriating in the dark perfection of his sin and then writhing in rather stagey shame for his moral awfulness. This foppish introspection fogs the early chapters of the present novel. But just before the reader...
...good tournament player as a junior, writes about tennis almost as well as Roger Angell writes about baseball. Here's his take on Jean Fleurian, losing a tough one to Pete Sampras: "If the Frenchman could have imagined winning, he would have won." He nails Ivan Lendl's monstrous adequacy: "Antonio Salieri in a sweatsuit." And he quotes a fan's remark about John McEnroe that hits the turbulent center of the man: "He just liked to create chaos. Because he was comfortable with it. With chaos...
Roger Sarver, 46, is part of the revolution. Farming 1,000 acres of rented land near Bowling Green, Ohio, he was making little economic headway, burdened with the overhead from a task force of monstrous machines with which he planted and harvested corn and soybeans. Then he went down to Columbus to hear Jim Kinsella, a Lexington, Ill., farmer who also runs a research and training center for no-till farming...
Attorney General William Barr called the landmark decision "an important victory . . . against terrorists and narcotraffickers." But Justice John Paul Stevens, who was joined in his dissent by Harry Blackmun and Sandra Day O'Connor, warned that "most courts throughout the civilized world will be deeply disturbed by the 'monstrous' decision the court announces today...
...cold war, Gorbachev said, both Soviet and Western leaders made mistakes. Moscow wrongly expected communist ideology to triumph after World War II, and the West erred by exaggerating the Soviet threat and "unleashing a monstrous arms race...