Word: secretes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Albania's quirky defiance of the rest of the world is rooted in a long history of foreign domination. After Communist partisans led by Hoxha defeated German occupiers and internal opponents in 1944 and grabbed power, Hoxha imposed a centrally planned economy and established total control through the feared secret police, the Sigurimi. In the years that followed, he distanced Albania from other Communist countries. Enraged by Nikita Khrushchev's de- Stalinization campaign, Hoxha broke with Moscow in 1961. When the Chinese began to experiment with reform in the late '70s, he denounced them as "revisionists," and effectively...
...suffered what he probably feared more than anything else: being portrayed as a fraudulent genius. "I always thought he was a rat," declares one investment banker. The disgrace kept welling up for Boesky last week. His book Merger Mania (subtitled Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret), a scholarly tome he published last year in an effort to dignify his profession as a science, was abruptly dropped by its current publisher, Henry Holt...
King knows all our secret terrors. His writing is crudely, squalidly effective, but affecting all the same. Witness his description of the narrator's pal finding the first stories he has written...
...wanted him to read them and at the same time I didn't--an uneasy mix of pride and shyness that has never changed in me very much when someone asks to look. The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation...for me it always wants to be sex and always falls short--it's always that adolescent handjob in the bathroom with the door locked...Nowadays writing is my work and the pleasure has diminished a little, and more and more often that guilty masturbatory pleasure has become associated in my head with the coldly clinical...
...Body" King lays out his most precious, secret feelings; in other stories he hits the vulgar, grotesque surreality inside us right on the head, and still pays his bills. He is vivid, rambunctious, sloppy, true-to-life, occasionally peurile, but always striking. If he's slipped a few times, he still hasn't fallen. There is truth in what he writes, not a lofty truth, but gut-grabbing honesty...