Word: overfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marilyn Monroe kill herself? Was she murdered? British Journalist Anthony Summers provides some sensational theories, but he is obviously chary of conclusions and wary of lawsuits. Readers of Goddess will learn far more about Marilyn's fragmented life than of her sorry demise. Some of the tale is overfamiliar: the battered childhood, the teenage bride, the nude photos, the Hollywood parabola, the famous marriages to Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller...
...Sound and the Führer are overfamiliar: an old Nazi project threatens to shake the contemporary world to its foundations. But Spy Master Len Deighton enlivens the pseudo history with some new turns, among them a face-to-face meeting between Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Time: 1940. Place: a Belgian bunker. Topic: the surrender of Britain. The Prime Minister, of course, refuses in the end. But so sensitive is the clandestine rendezvous-one of the terms discussed is Nazi control of Ireland-that even two generations later, anyone who learns of it is marked for XPD-Expedient Demise...
...Southern states last week hummed with metronomic precision, as he sought to make up for his surprise loss to George Bush in Iowa. There were no important hitches and plenty of warm crowds-but also a certain lack of spontaneity, as if the veteran actor were playing an overfamiliar role. He hammered away at Carter's foreign policy, proposing one new American initiative after another. He mentioned as a possibility a blockade of Cuba-"Stop the shipment of everything in and out"-in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As another option, he suggested stationing U.S. fighter planes...