Word: returning
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...RETURN OF LITTLE BIG MAN By Thomas Berger Little, Brown...
...stumble across Wyatt Earp, Annie Oakley and even Queen Victoria, with whom you share a few drinks and swap stories and. This may sound like the plot for Bill and Ted's Excellent Wild West Adventure, but it is actually the basic premise of Thomas Berger's novel The Return of Little Big Man, which manages to pull off the often difficult task of effortlessly and effectively mingling fiction with history. The Return of Little Big Man is the continuation of the thoroughly entertaining story of Jack Crabb, also known as Little Big Man, an orphan raised by the Cheyenne...
...painstaking research, which allows him, through our personal tour-guide Jack, to make a complicated and convoluted history seem both very straightforward and very real; distant and lionized legends like Wild Bill Hickok become poignantly human through Jack's unique perspective and experience. In his novel The Return of little Big Man, Thomas Berger proves himself to be a master of the storytelling craft through an engaging narrative that tells history through fiction in the most fulfilling...
...bill, which was agreed to after a heated debate, falls short of calling for ROTC's return to Harvard. It was approved by a vote of 29 to 21, with three representatives abstaining...
Going to a party in a big group is fun--it's like the party has already started if there are a bunch of people heading to the same place. But it can be difficult to coordinate the return of the same group. People inevitably split up, but making sure that there are always groups of two and no one's left alone can be a problem...