Word: peopledeal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over the years, the shy, slow-speaking Keillor, who has written all the scripts, has peopled Lake Wobegon with enough walk-on eccentrics to fill an English garden party. Father Emil, the priest at Our Lady of Perpetual Responsibility Church, for instance, who has not paid much attention to Vatican...
The world that remains is dark, damp, and overgrown, peopled with primitive hunter-gatherers and horrible mutants. The language, too, has undergone a mutation: in Hoban's version of English reinvented from scratch, spelling, sentence-structure, and vocabulary have all taken on a childlike spontaniety and simplicity.
It was not so long ago that the man in the Oval Office considered the court either an adversary to be intimidated or a part of his private preserve, peopled with enough Justices from the political system to allow room for discreet wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.
In 350 words, Maurice Sendak manages to evoke a mythic land peopled by the familiar (a mother and two daughters) and the wholly exotic (goblins and dream-scapes), where natural law, like the reader, is held in suspense. The time is the past indefinite; costumes indicate the 19th century, but...
Probably you think the conflict in Ireland is some sort of religious war that has gone on forever. 'They've fought so long they don't remember what they're fighting about.' 'Killing each other in the name of God.' Well, not exactly. It happens that Ireland was the first...