Word: rundown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much alive, observes Slate's Scott Shuger, who ledes his Friday dispatch with USA Today's version of Kathleen Willey's lawyer's spin control. To balance it out, Shuger turns to the Wash Post and its Bob Bennett salvo in the Jones case. As for the non-Monica rundown, Slate's SS points us to the NYT's look at what's new with Zhu, China's new prime minister; the WSJ's take a on a court win in Muncie, Ind., for cigarette makers; and the LAT's coverage of Rupert Murdoch's buy of the Dodgers...
...title story, less obviously a fantasy and more difficult to bring off for lack of stage effects, traces the years of watching and listening that tie a woman to a large, rundown ranch in Texas. The point of the long, brooding account is simply for narrator and reader to understand these profound ties, the connectedness of memory, time's flow, seed's uncurling, and "the spider's silk lines of chance." Writing of this quality creates a stillness in the mind...
...York police and federal officers moved into action. They surrounded a rundown building at 248 Fourth Ave., just outside the middle-class Park Slope neighborhood, quietly evacuated 90 nearby residents and rerouted subway trains that carry 300,000 passengers every rush hour. Just before dawn, heavily armed cops swarmed into a first-floor apartment. One of the men inside reached into a bag, while another lunged for one of the officers' guns. Both men were shot repeatedly. The bag turned out to contain a powerful pipe bomb, one of several in the apartment. The suspect had succeeded in flicking...
...them enough to replace their former undergraduate scruffiness with low-budget chic. Otherwise, their work makes them vaguely restless in ways that are scarcely worth discussing. This is not to say that frequent flashbacks to the bad old days--when the pair lived, squabbling and self-obsessed, in a rundown flat above a Chinese takeout restaurant--are finally any more conclusive. Or that the girls' chance encounters with figures out of that past--a slick, careless lover they once shared; a weird, enormous former roommate now lost to schizophrenia (and played with great and tender ferocity by Mark Benton...
Actually, I heard that people were disappointed about its being taken to Broadway because they thought that the original venue sort of fit the "feel" of it more, the sort of rundown bohemia...