Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his exquisite, jeweled miniatures, Gunesekera bears the same relation to a Rushdie that, say, his tiny, teardrop island does to multifarious India. He favors elliptical, charged fragments that show drifters caught between the "flat, newly built motorways" of England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...
GIRL IN THE MOON...
When NANSOOK HONG was 15, she was summoned to New York City to become the wife of the first son and heir of the REV. SUN MYUNG MOON and part of the Moonies' first family. Early one morning 14 years later, she fled the Moonie compound in a van in which her five children were hiding. In case all those mass weddings didn't tip us off that life as a Moonie is not very sunny, she has written a book, In the Shadow of the Moons, about her ordeal. Her husband, she says, who hadn't wanted to marry...
...further research and consumer awareness of the causes of food-borne disease. We've learned many painful lessons about today's volatile food-safety environment and hope our experience and stories like yours will help prevent another tragic outbreak. CHRISTOPHER C. GALLAGHER JR. Director of Communications Odwalla Inc. Half Moon Bay, Calif...
...most accounts, John Kennedy is the key to why Glenn still has the itch to fly in space. When Glenn went aloft on Feb. 20, 1962, the U.S. was taking its first toddling steps on its long march to the moon. Although he was 40, Glenn figured he still had a lot of flying ahead of him. When he returned to Earth, he found otherwise. Like any other astronaut, he periodically approached Bob Gilruth, head of the Mercury program, to inquire about his position in the flight rotation; unlike any other astronaut, he was routinely stonewalled. "Headquarters doesn't want...