Word: slog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...began to write in Texas, McCarthy's published work remained a hard slog for readers who couldn't cut through his syntactical thornbush, but in 1979 he brought out Suttree, apparently the last book set in the South he had in him, and it was rough, gnarly, funny as hell and, for the first time, accessible. Here is the novel on the Big Question...
...Trinidad by indentured laborers from India. Molded by family custom and the tensions of his multiracial island, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was then reshaped by British institutions. They included a scholarship system that brought the gifted young colonial to postwar England, where he settled and began his long, penny-pinching slog toward literary distinction...
...stuck with some of the most painful material to deliver. It is a tribute to his acting ability that Benjy seems halfway-believable. Toro-Hernandez sings competently and is endearingly cute in his courtship of K.C. Downing, an assistant on Comedy Cavalcade. It takes a brave actor to slog through some of Benjy's asides to the audience; Toro-Hernandez should get a Purple heart...
...talks have been a slog. The North Koreans, superb brinksmen, never budge until the last moment. They negotiate with that combination of self- righteousness and unblushing bad faith common among old-style communist regimes, violating commitments in order to sell the same concession two or three times. On the American side, a certain admiration has even developed for this doggedness. But the atomic clock is ticking. "I think both sides are getting tired of going over and over each tiny concession," says one source. "Now that we've gotten to know each other, gotten comfortable with each other and gotten...
...just trying to slog our way through, doing it case by case," says U.N. spokesman Joseph Sills. "We are being asked to do jobs of greater size and scope than ever before, but we are short on manpower, short on money and short on troop contributions." The lack of resources is mainly the result of some member nations' being delinquent in paying their dues. The U.S., which pays 30% of the U.N.'s peacekeeping costs, owes $114 million to that fund and $296 million in regular U.N. dues. Russia owes a total of $400 million. Meanwhile, the cost of keeping...