Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson was especially strong defending against power-play situations, allowing only one goal in 11 short-handed opportunities through out the tournament...
This collection, scrupulously annotated by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, includes the two novels, all 28 short stories, essays and more than 250 indiscreet and entertaining letters. In them a previously hidden critic emerges: "Mr. Truman Capote makes me plumb sick, as does Mr. Tenn. Williams . . . if ((James)) Baldwin were white nobody would stand him a minute." She has nothing but awe for William Faulkner, the only other Southern novelist to be published in the magisterial Library of America series. She belongs in his company...
Reported TIME's A. Lin Neumann: "Inside Rangoon General Hospital, patients lay screaming and dying in the corridors as ambulance drivers rushed through the wards with fresh casualties. Supplies were short, the doctors said, and the stock of some anesthetics was running out. One doctor feared he might soon have to perform surgery with only pain-killers. Drivers said they had picked up a very small percentage of the dead. They told of soldiers in many places taking the corpses for cremation...
Foreign affairs got relatively short shrift, and neither debater broke new ground. Dukakis, as expected, assailed Bush sharply for the Administration's dealings with Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and for its "tragic" sales of arms to Iran. Bush, he said, had not been "out of the loop," as the Vice President had contended, but had attended "meeting after meeting after meeting" at which the arms sales were discussed and approved. His own position, said Dukakis, was that "there can be no concessions under any circumstances" to terrorists, however "agonizing" it might be to let American citizens remain in captivity...
...today's case study is Washington, home of the best and the worst in public facilities. (The museums along the Mall contain what may be the world's densest concentration of well- kept public rest rooms. And then there is the rest of the city.) With us for a short orientation is Alexander Kira, a professor of architecture at Cornell. Kira is the utter antithesis of public rest-room grunge -- a dapper, courtly figure who carries a silver case for his imported cigarettes and keeps a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket. He's the author of a highly regarded...