Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MARY RING...
...attempts to bring auto-executive characters to life, Hailey is trying to turn stickmen into figures of flesh and blood. He doesn't understand that people in automobiles simply do not allow themselves the same human excesses as people in airports and people in hotels. The book doesn't ring true at moments of such attempted tenderness as the one where--during a weekend affair with a black schoolteacher--Adam says softly. "For the first time in my life I know, really know, what it means when they say 'Black is Beautiful.'" No, the real moments are like...
...flashlight. Now we are offered, direct from Israel, To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter. True, Israel is in the Middle East, but the tastes of most Israelis are conditioned by a European heritage going back many centuries. As a musical, To Live is about as advanced as ring-around-a-rosy and decidedly less diverting than Sunday in Central Park...
...more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone, and one last blinking of something-a jewel, a ring, a coin cupped in his palm, and darkness comes between us and is final...
...Little Chrissy Evert!" The words still ring in the mind. Why was she "little Chrissy Evert"? Why not "swift Chrissy Evert" or "agile Chrissy Evert...