Word: scratcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...between terrestrial reality and cyberspace, meeting a new raft of 21st century weirdos as an ill-defined societal apocalypse nears. The ferociously talented Gibson (Neuromancer) delivers his signature melange of techno-pop splendor and postindustrial squalor, but this time his teasing, multicharacter narrative leads only to an irritating head scratcher of a conclusion. Genre freaks: this appears to complete the trilogy. Connoisseurs: just reread Neal Stephenson...
Here's a head scratcher. A reader wrote, "In the '50s there was a filmed musical called Scheherezade. Who played the Russian navy officer who was able to hide a cigarette in his mouth?" The movie was Song of Scheherezade; it was released in 1947; and the captain was Brian Donlevy...
...MATTER OF DEGREE Here's a head scratcher. The more educated you are, the more likely you may be to suffer headaches. In a study, 30% of men and 38% of women who finished high school got them, compared with 49% of men and women with graduate degrees...