Word: orly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When no signs of fatherly concern emerged, the police concocted another scheme. Four weeks ago they released Fredy and then waited. Just as they anticipated, Fredy eventually headed for his father -- not knowing that the police were tailing him. The confrontation finally came last Friday southwest of Cartagena. Fredy and...
Strong material, then; and Rezzori follows this family labyrinth back with a fine disdain for sentiment, a transparency of feeling, an acid sense of humor and a vigilant eye for nuances of love and indifference, language, landscape and class behavior. It is not a young man's (or a moralist...
"News-desk staffers sometimes have to call us at 2 or 3 a.m.," says Eastern Europe bureau chief John Borrell, who over the past few months has come to view sleep as a hobby that he once had time for. "In soft, soothing tones that the Metternich school of diplomacy...
Both a departure and a summing up, Keep the Change is described by McGuane as a "happy superimposition of results on intentions." Loyal readers will find themselves on familiar terrain -- the bone-dry wit, terse dialogue, lyrical descriptions of nature and hovering suggestion of violence are pure McGuane. But the...
For Thomas Francis McGuane III that struggle began at the age of ten when a disagreement with a boyhood chum over the description of a sunset ended in a fistfight. "It was my first literary skirmish," he says. Born and raised in Michigan, McGuane was introduced to the outdoors and...