Word: short
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kiosks, in entryways, in libraries, Harvardians on their way to class can now read poetry a la Advocate and short short stories that deal with such subjects as sexual, inter-racial tensions in colonial societies...
...This agreement is probably not the best deal that could be made, but it is a good, solid beginning," Reagan said. He said it was "a plan that meets our short-term concerns and while laying the foundation for longterm solutions...
...beginning of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Professor Richard Hunt, who teaches a Core course called "Culture and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany," delivers a short lecture on Brecht, while a rogues gallery of Nazi thugs, whom Brecht's parable has transformed into Chicago gangsters, listens in bemusement. "It is a very serious play. It is also a very funny play," Hunt says of Ui itself. Then one of the gangsters motions Hunt offstage and shoots...
...YEAR is 2017. Food and fuel are in short supply, and the people are getting restless. The government controls the media and keeps the masses in line with a combination of violence, lies and game shows. Yes, game shows, and specifically "Running Man," the most popular TV program in the nation...
...older brother's narration, however, falls short. Vilmure, unable to create a distinct voice for the disturbed teenager, relies on interspersed, italicized flashbacks to distinguish the older brother's words. But Vilmure's struggle to give a voice to the illiterate older brother is admirable, speech being his only way of communicating with the world...