Word: nightmarish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pages Percy devotes to establishing and then fleshing out this mystery are as gripping as any he has ever written. Dr. More's slow piecing together of unsettling symptoms proceeds with nightmarish fascination. Any solution to such a carefully rendered enigma is likely to seem a letdown, and Percy's answer threatens, for a time, to stop The Thanatos Syndrome dead in its tracks. Tom, aided by his young, distant and potentially kissing cousin Lucy Lipscomb, herself a doctor and an epidemiologist, discovers that the local water supply is being laced with heavy sodium from the coolant of a nearby...
...film and TV production firm, Turner issued 53.3 million shares of preferred stock in Turner Broadcasting. A provision of the deal was that starting this June, he would have to pay dividends on those shares in the form of common stock in his firm. He faced the nightmarish possibility that he would eventually have to give away so much common stock that he would lose control of Turner Broadcasting...
...DREAM-LIKE QUALITY permeates Ginsberg's work; and he gives us a poem about daydreaming while he exercises, another poem that William Carlos Williams dictated to Ginsberg during his sleep and finally the nightmarish "Black Shroud...
...teller of this tale takes his time getting around to it, but it is a scorcher when it arrives: how Rose and a construction worker fell in love long ago, married and, being devout Roman Catholics, had three children in as many years. How, further, romance soured into a nightmarish descent into impoverishment and brutality. After years of dulled acquiescence to the growing horror around her, Rose musters the energy to strike back. She saves her children from disaster and, in the process, loses them to the legal system. Now, at a different bar, she says that...
Even as she showered her sons with the proceeds from her $10 million tobacco fortune, Margaret Hitchcock Benson lived in fear of them. There were constant fights and drugs and a nightmarish unhappiness that led her to believe that one or another of them was stealing her funds and wanted her dead...