Word: passport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italians prepared to remove others. Margaret Cummings, originally from Queens, N.Y., has spent the past 22 years in Lebanon. "I stayed through the civil war, and it was nothing like what happened last week," she said as she sat on her suitcase outside the embassy, waiting for her passport to be checked. "I thought I was going...
...manager with a British mutual fund took him to Belgium. Although born in India, Mukherjee, 54, has lived in Britain for 35 years, and is permitted to enter and leave the country freely. As he was departing this time, an immigration official quizzed him closely about his new passport, apparently looking for grounds to detain him as a suspected illegal. To the official's embarrassment, Mukherjee's documents were in order. "I watched his face redden as he stamped my passport," Mukherjee remembers. It was an example of what he calls "lace-curtain discrimination. It's where...
...hates to fly and visits Hollywood as seldom as possible. "It's real strange out there," he says. "Every time I go, I feel like I should take my passport...
...They seem to have no worry whether I can safely drive at all, let alone find my way home, home, in the dark, having drunk as much as this .. . The passport, I had noticed, was growing smaller, over the years, and changing fabric ... A case nominally begins with an injury, for which there exists in the law a kind of remedy, usually financial, but sometimes having to do, rather more brutally, with divorce, separation, incarceration, custody...
...artful arrangement of discontinuous parts. Its narrator exemplifies the fugitive detachment nurtured by young intellectuals in the 1950s. Her name is Kate Ennis, though her identity is never as clear as her prose. At one point, Ennis, or someone who sounds like her, appears to be carrying a passport issued to Adler...