Word: pales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ruddy-hued Stormy Loftus (Thomas A. Carlin) is a bustling contractor flush with building schemes. His wife Jan (Charlotte Moore) is an alabaster-pale monument to worthy causes. Stormy's best friend, Jess White (James Greene), sells wallpaper, but his wallet is bare thanks to six children, whom his wife Myra (Pauline Flanagan) counts as the blessed bounty of God. Ruggedly handsome Richard Halvey (David Canary), whose wife Trina (Swoosie Kurtz) dresses and acts half her age, has a gnawing lust in his loins for Jan Loftus...
Stunned by the swift, six-minute sentencing, relatives of the defendants burst into an impassioned chorus of the national anthem. Plainclothes police hastily dragged them from the courtroom. Kim, pale and wan from 60 days of solitary confinement and constant interrogation that he said had driven him to the brink of insanity, attempted to smile bravely as he was led away. The immediate reaction in South Korea, still under tight martial law, was muted. But the verdict evoked outrage in other countries. In Japan, trade unions and student organizations mounted a series of protest demonstrations. In West Germany, Foreign Minister...
DIED. Katherine Anne Porter, 90, author of gemlike novellas and short stories that dealt, in her words, with the human propensity for "self-betrayal and self-deception, in all its forms"; in Silver Spring, Md. With such lapidary works as Flowering Judas, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall and Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the Texas-born Porter reigned in the 1930s and '40s as the undisputed queen of the short story. But popular and financial success did not come until the publication in 1962 of her only full-length novel, Ship of Fools, which received mixed reviews but became...
...caught a bus for Herat early the following morning. The passing desert landscape yielded camel's thorn, patches of purple and pale yellow flowers, and 28 charred metal wrecks-military trucks, armored personnel carriers and, to our horror, a bus. Again came the whisper: "Mujahidin. "After a Soviet guard waved us through one checkpoint, my relieved traveling companion grinned and gave the soldier a little farewell wave in return. This upset one of the Afghans, who fixed Marshall with a scowl-evidently taking him for a Soviet sympathizer-and ran his finger across his throat. Then, just as Marshall...
...Basically, the Democrats support an activist, interventionist Government, while the Republicans want to reduce the federal presence. Declares the G.O.P.: "Government's power to take and tax, to regulate and require, has already reached extravagant proportions. Divided, leaderless, unseeing, uncomprehending, Democratic politicians plod on with listless offerings of pale imitations of the same policies they have pursued so long, knowing full well their futility...