Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Puzo works hard to make his story back-lot mythic. Spartacus led his slave army out of the Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted...
Despite the critical condition of many of its vital organs. Chinese Cabaret passes artistic triage. It needs more experimentation with the blocking and set, but the skeleton of an exceptional piece of art is visible under the blotchy skin...
Kimeu's specimen died on the marshy periphery of what is now the Nariokotome 1.6 million years ago. Not only is the find one of the oldest examples of its species, it is the most nearly complete skeleton of an early human ancestor that has ever been discovered...
...running mate. Under pressure from the National Organization for Women and other groups to make a gesture of lokenism. Mondale attempted to make a virtue out of a Accessity by naming an inexperienced Congresswoman to the ticket, Recently the country has learned that Geraldine Ferrane has student after skeleton in her ethical closet, Vice President Bush, in stark contrast, boasts perhaps the most complete resume--including ambassador to China and CIA director-among public servants. The problems in Ferraro's background no doubt surprised Mondale as much they did the rest of the country, and they illustrate incptitude and amateur...
...followed its natural cycle," Sargent noted philosophically. Only the ski-pole skeleton and greedy hands are left