Word: peck
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...Dale Peck's extraordinary first book Martin and John probes these questions with maturity and eloquence. At first glance, this self-proclaimed novel looks like a collection of unrelated short stories alternating with brief italicized passages. The stories are vastly different, but appear connected by a system of names and settings: Kansas and New York provide the locales; the narrator of each is named John; Beatrice, Harry and Susan recur, although always as different characters; and each contains an enigmatic figure named Martin...
...Bush presidency about 1,100 Marines were beginning to come home. Besides redeeming Bush's pledge, the move was clearly intended to prod the United Nations to hurry up in creating a regular peacekeeping force to take over from the U.S.-led ad hoc troops. American Marine Colonel Fred Peck, a military spokesman in Mogadishu, hopefully suggested that U.S. troops could begin to pass authority to the U.N. as early...
This scene, the end of William Wyler's Roman Holiday, is memorable for reasons that can never be taught in film school. Wyler had a fierce sense of emotional focus, and he had here a consummate movie star, Gregory Peck. But this great scene would have been nonsense if Peck did not have something wonderful and irreplaceable to miss. He had Audrey Hepburn...
...ABOUT A SECURITY NIGHTMARE. IN THE FINAL sprint of a peripatetic presidency, George Bush arrived in Mogadishu just as armed thugs were returning to the streets. "I doubt if any American President has ever visited a nation in such turmoil and such a state of anarchy," said Colonel Fred Peck, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition. Bush waved off the threat with characteristic thumbs-up bravado, stating improbably, "It's perfectly safe...
...close race, but what speaks in our favor is the text of the bill itself," Peck said...