Word: sighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When this frail old man finally succumbed to the Parkinson's disease and lung ailments that had sparked rumors of his demise for years, most Chinese registered barely a sigh. Black-clad television announcers proclaimed his death just a few hours after it occurred, while traffic continued to thread through Tiananmen Square. The casual manner in which Beijing residents went about their daily routines offered eloquent proof that the Chinese have accepted their leader's mortality and long since discounted his loss. "We are at ease with the thought that things will be all right without Deng," said Beijing writer...
...Best Books of 1996" the Moor's Last Sigh was mentioned as Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses. However, he wrote a novel, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (winner of a Writers' Guild award), in 1990 while in hiding after the fatwa. During this period he also published Imaginary Homelands, a collection of essays and criticism, and his first (and so far only) collection of stories, East, West. IRFAN AHMAD KHAN Karachi, Pakistan...
...seems entirely obscure and remote. There are very few Hutu representatives on campus. Nor are there many Tutsis either, for that matter. As a result, the situation of the projected 1.1 million displaced refugees in this region remains Boston Globe front page news--at best. We read the story, sigh, and head straight for the sports, weather, living arts or business sections. After all, this news is important; it will inform us whether to wear a sweater to section, what time to attend a movie or how well our stocks did on Wall Street...
JOHN F. KENNEDY JR. Single women everywhere will breathe a sigh of relief when he divorces Carolyn Bessette. --Susan Shaw...
...MOOR'S LAST SIGH (Pantheon). Salman Rushdie's first novel since The Satanic Verses exuberantly details the protagonist's absurd fall from the grace of a wealthy Indian childhood into the hands of a madman who plans to kill him once the story ends--an interesting motif for this particular author. But the hero survives, and Rushdie's bountiful comic narrative triumphs...