Word: sagas
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...himself put together, "Red-Dirt Marijuana" (1967) shows the true depth of his talent, as the reader sees him adopting different styles and narrative voices, and nailing every one. The contents include Faulkner-like tales of a Texan adolescent (later reworked into "Texas Summer") , an inner-city delinquent saga, a blissed-out, Kerouac-like account of a road trip, a journey into the mind of a tormented worker in the Paris metro, and an artfully drawn portrait of a wannabe hipster who hangs around black musicians (titled "You're Too Hip, Baby," its milieu may be dated, but its message...
...saga of the First Twins is fated to play on a while longer, now that Jenna Bush, 19, has decided to fight charges that she tried to buy liquor with someone else's ID at an Austin restaurant last month. Caught with a margarita at the same haunt, her sister Barbara pleaded no contest last week and will do eight hours of community service. While the President and his wife quietly grappled with how to manage their wayward children (it's Jenna's second citation), baby-boomer parents across the country had to wonder: If the First Daughters could...
...have finally reached the end of the Timothy McVeigh saga. Thursday afternoon, after a day of considering arguments from McVeigh?s attorneys and government counterparts, a three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit denied McVeigh's request for a stay of execution, saying his attorneys "utterly failed to demonstrate substantial grounds" why he should should not die next week in Terre Haute, Indiana. What's next? McVeigh's attorney Robert Nigh said Thursday evening his client is "prepared to die," and does not want to continue his appeals. According to Nigh, McVeigh has no plans to ask for presidential...
...Turkish invasion that cut the island in two; in Nicosia, Cyprus. An advocate of unification with Greece, Sampson fought British colonials and later Turkish Cypriots before his role in the coup forced him into exile until the 1990s. DIED. DOUGLAS ADAMS, 49, British author of the cult sci-fi saga The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, California. The novel, a satirical and surreal look at the search for an answer to life and the universe (which turned out to be 42), sold more than 14 million copies worldwide and was followed...
Though comparisons are being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...