Word: nineteen
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Canadian Author Margaret Atwood's sixth novel will remind most readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four. That can hardly be helped. Any new fictional account of how things might go horribly wrong risks comparisons either with George Orwell's classic or with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. To a remarkable degree, these two books have staked out the turf of contemporary antiutopias. Which punishment is it to be this time? Relentless, inescapable totalitarianism or the mindless, synthetic stupors of technology? As it turns out, Atwood's look at the future takes place under conditions that Orwell would recognize. Repression...
Apart from the estrangement between Harry and Kate, Twice in a Lifetime has two other principal subplots, one dealing with daughter Sunny marital problems and the other with daughter Helen's plans to get married to her nineteen-year-old boyfriend. (Why anyone would want to get married after experiencing what this family has gone through is entirely unclear, but the film does follow the wedding dress...
After yesterday's opening ceremonies, students were looking forward to spending today at Harvard, where they will visit classes and attend committee sessions in nineteen different locations...
...Nineteen yards rushing in the first half. Six quarterback sacks for the game. Only nine first downs...
...town of Coamo, at least three automobiles plunged from a fallen bridge, killing eight. Nineteen bodies were pulled from the swollen Paso Seco River near the town of Santa Isabel, where another bridge gave way at the height of the deluge. Ironically, shortly after the weather front left Puerto Rico and gained sufficient new force to be classified as a tropical storm, Isabel was the name routinely assigned to it by the World Meteorological Organization. Isabel came close to gaining hurricane status as it approached the Florida coastline, but then rapidly dwindled in force...