Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duke speaks of many things African and animal, and warns at the end of each paragraph that such things should not be written about because publicity is fatal. Now you see the duke. Now you don't. He concludes with a flourish of suave obliteration, "If there was one species you could remove to the benefit of the earth, it would be man." Among the animal lovers, it is not unusual to encounter that misanthropic streak. The animal lovers seem to feel themselves to be just as besieged as the animals...
...also registers the everyday details of a nation's collective suicide: people are said to be feasting on corpses; ten-year-olds take their own lives; in a single paragraph May laconically records the deaths of three of his siblings. Some of these horrors may seem almost routine to those who have seen the film The Killing Fields or read Molyda Szymusiak's The Stones Cry Out, a recently published memoir that covers much the same killing ground. Yet May is unusually sensitive to the monstrous ironies of a world turned inside out. While some peasants starved, others, suddenly allowed...
...billion U.S. foreign trade deficit. Japan was said to be ready to make a similar move, but before that, Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa suddenly flew to Washington for a private 2 1/2-hour chat with Baker. The only visible result of their efforts was a four-paragraph communique that affirmed the two countries' "willingness to cooperate on exchange-rate issues." Translation: the U.S. would not explicitly commit itself to propping up the drooping dollar. One reason: the currency's decline makes imports more expensive and thus can help reduce the trade deficit...
...Tuesday more than a hundred staff members gathered in a lobby of The New Yorker's offices to protest the move. After several splenetic speeches against Newhouse, they decided to draft a letter to Gottlieb asking him to step aside in favor of an in-house candidate. The three-paragraph message was signed by 154 people, including Roger Angell, Ann Beattie, Calvin Trillin and even the hermitic J.D. Salinger, who has not published a short story in The New Yorker since 1965. "It is our strange and powerfully held conviction," read the letter, "that only an editor who has been...
...write about what could have happened," he says, "not what did happen. Why that's so hard to grasp I don't understand. I have once in a while started off just setting down some incident I'd actually gone through and I can hardly get past the first paragraph without veering off into something that didn't happen, which is always more interesting. I'm highly sensitive to boredom. I think it's an occupational requirement...