Word: serial
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...Serial Repeater. She says one comment per section—one which has already been stated—and tunes out for the rest of class. “If you’ve ever read this book in Arabic you’d totally know the author didn’t mean that.” It is doubtful she speaks Arabic or that she has read the book...
...psychiatrist who studied the darkest corners of the human mind; in Chicago. Freedman mapped the psyches of assassins, mass murderers and terrorists, hoping to understand the psychological causes of extreme violence. Appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to develop a profile of John F. Kennedy's assassins, Freedman also analyzed serial killer John Wayne Gacy in 1980, testifying for the defense in his trial. Gacy was later executed for the murder of 33 men and boys...
Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with all-female stars that sets its drama on the home front, whereas Cold Case, Alias and Crossing Jordan star individual women in law-enforcement (read: guy-friendly) roles...
...Desperate Housewives is the kind of show many TV execs believed wouldn't work on a network today. It's satiric. Unlike CSI, it has a complicated serial plot. (The guy-gal thing again; networks run scared from shows that ask for a commitment.) And it's a show with all-female stars that sets its drama on the home front, whereas Cold Case, Alias and Crossing Jordan star individual women in law-enforcement (read: guy-friendly) roles...
...Middle Australians, the battlers whose dreams and disappointments can determine an election, need look no further than the 17 short stories of Tim Winton's The Turning (Picador; 317 pages). In this trailer park of a collection, characters move from the suburbs to the coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from...