Word: sizzlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...readers with a short attention span, Chaudhuri offers paragraph-long summaries of each novel at the beginning of the text. Completely eliminating the entertainment value of the plot, this is his way of deterring thrill seekers in search of an action-packed sizzler. He cultivates a reading audience willing to linger and savor the sensations he painstakingly recreates. This is a man in love with language. Each of his sentences is a work of art, making it clear that it's the arrangement of syllables and not the plot that matters to Chaudhuri...
...nine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center were shipping out for the gulf. Two days after the Marines and their families learned of the mobilization, a local wedding chapel performed 30 weddings. Robert Lauffer, editor of the High Desert Star, went to dinner at a local restaurant, the Sizzler, and could hardly get past the crowd waiting to be seated. "At practically every table," he recalls, "there was one young guy with short hair, surrounded by family, friends and an equally young wife or girlfriend." The Marines' wives formed support groups, each centered on a wife who has been...