Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTER DARK, by Cormac McCarthy. A backwoods brother and sister, their abandoned child and three archetypal murderers are the major elements in this Southern-gothic horror story...
...newscasts. On last week's show, for example, Rowan reported this bulletin of the future: "Vatican, 1988. The church today finally approved the use of the Pill. The announcement was made by Pope Le Roy . . . Junior. His father was not available for comment. His mother, the former Sister Mary Catherine reached at Gluck's Hillside in the Catskills, would only say, 'We like to think of the Pill as St. Joseph Aspirin For Children...
...source of his unhappiness was obvious. Like most newsmen on the Constitution and its sister Atlanta Journal, Patterson, 44, has often complained about the pinchpenny policies of the papers' owner, James Cox, and Cox's chief executive officer, President Jack Tarver of Atlanta Newspapers, Inc. Salaries are so low that many of the Constitution's most talented reporters have left Atlanta to go to work for other newspapers. Tarver simply replaces them at around $100 a week with earnest young men who flock to Atlanta from all over the South, drawn mostly by the reputations of Patterson...
...occasion, the show will feature Robert Stack, who plays the handsome, hard-hitting editor on People's sister publication, Crime. The audience gets the punishment...
Outer Dark is a morality tale that has elements of a Southern-Gothic horror story. Its main characters are involved in a quest. A newborn child, the product of an incestuous affair between a backwoods brother and sister, is abandoned by the brother and found by a passing tinker. The sister sets out on a long search for the child, and the brother obsessively pursues her, while both suffer physical and spiritual deprivations...