Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot with a devising tragedy in which the young protagonist's father and sisters are massacred by the "Black and Tans," Fools of Fortuneencompasses the sort of tragedy and desolation that might have kept Thomas Hardy going for a few hundred pages. In many respects this is the skeleton of a novel, containing the outlines of an extended tragedy but lacking the body of narrative that usually fills out Trevor's fictions so convincingly, We have, instead, scenes from a tragedy, ghostly excerpts from the history of an Anglo-Irish family...
...outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...other major Harvard project will expand one of the University's fastest growing divisions, the Kennedy School of Government (3). The skeleton of the Belfer Center for Public Management is complete, and construction planners expect the addition's exterior to be finished by Thanksgiving...
...Well do we know that in each of us lives a skeleton that waits for the flesh to die, there is an absence waiting for the presence to depart-but a great city! A city like Antioch! As Pilgermann the owl I fly over it now and it looks like nothing really, it has retreated from its medieval boundaries, it has shrunk and dwindled, it has huddled itself together, has drawn back from the vaunt of its greatness and the largeness of its history, it is like a swimmer who has struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent...
...September 14, 1972-February 28, 1983): Last night saw the death of an old friend, a mainstay of America's popular culture. M*A*S*H offered us a funny bone in the skeleton of the Korean War for 11 years, nearly four times the length of the actual...