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Word: novarro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...island.' " The White Album is full of the bizarre details, the eye for blinding weirdness, that made Slouching Towards Bethlehem one of the purest leftover artifacts of the '60s. Didion again collects clippings of American death trips: the brothers who bludgeoned Ramon Novarro, for example; and the 26-year-old woman who put her five-year-old daughter out to die on the center divider of Interstate 5 some miles south of the last Bakersfield exit; the child's fingers had to be pried loose from the Cyclone fence when she was rescued twelve hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Death Trips | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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