Word: panama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from O.J. output make up for the drag on the GNP from millions of people glued to their TV sets and staying away from the stores? According to my statistical reckoning, Americans put in more man-hours watching the Bronco chase than it took to build the entire Panama Canal...
...dangerously quirky hurricane, tearing murderously into some areas while leaving nearby land relatively untouched. Property losses were estimated at $2 billion, making it the fourth most costly natural disaster in U.S. history. Opal utterly demolished much of a 140-mile stretch of coastline between Mobile and Panama City, Florida, including some of America's most exquisite beaches. It killed people with falling trees in Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina. But no major population areas caught the full force of its winds, and some towns directly in its path managed to escape almost unscathed...
...notion of placing such a figure at the center of a murder story in the Paris of 1892 must have seemed both absurd and superb when writer Eric Zencey hatched it, and in his novel Panama (Farrar Straus Giroux; 375 pages; $24), that's exactly the way it turns out. Zencey, a professor of history at Goddard College in Vermont, presents an Adams pastiche that might have been recognizable to the original: a small, acute, conflicted man who emits pedantry when made nervous. He cannot praise except in negatives: on the rococo facade of the Paris Opera House "the winged...
...fascination back in Paris, Miriam is at first reported to have been murdered, and then to have disappeared into the coils of a vast financial and political scandal. This involves the murder of the Baron Jacques de Reinach, an officer of the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Interocaanique, whose Panama Canal project had failed in a miasma of debt and thousands of yellow fever deaths. Fully half of the French Chamber of Deputies had accepted bribes in the form of checks, which they had foolishly signed. They became known to delighted journalists as "chequards...
...home team, talking tough as Russian parliamentary election campaigns proceed. "The Russians are suffering from 'former superpower angst'," Donnelly says. "If the U.S. had become a lesser power, and Russia and Europe were ignoring the U.S. and intervening in a place where it traditionally has influence, like Panama, then Americans would be upset...