Word: solidities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Criminal investigators pieced together a composite description of the two attackers, but the evidence was too vague to provide solid identification. Still, the leads seemed convincing enough for police to distribute nationwide some 80,000 wanted posters with photographs of Nathalie Menigon, 29, and Joelle Aubron, 27, two Action Directe militants. Interior Minister Charles Pasqua urged the nation to "cooperate with the police" in hunting down Besse's murderers, and he offered a 1 million franc ($152,000) reward for information leading to their capture...
Canseco, 6-ft. 3-in., built himself up to a solid 210 pounds last winter with a weight-lifting program and began making an impression in spring training. His batting practice show brought fans out early around the league, and the homers continued most of the season, except for one long, frustrating slump...
...teacher and a chef with his own restaurant, he is also a born explainer. He has an extremely catholic taste, an attribute immediately apparent in John Clancy's Favorite Recipes -- A Personal Cookbook (Atheneum; $21.95). In a book well suited to the relatively inexperienced cook, he includes such simple, solid fare as hamburgers, braised shoulder of lamb, German vegetable beef soup and French crullers. He gives meat loaf some style by way of jalapeno peppers, tenderizes and flavors broiled duck with a ginger-and-wine-vinegar marinade and imparts a herbaceous Provence fragrance to the lowly blowfish. Clams in black...
...little gem of a piece, a solid effort from writer-director Kaplan. Scenes are quick and to the point. Friends Neal and Brad (Will Provost and Matthew Schuerman) encounter Bevvy, the clinging woman (Karen Petrone); Alyssa, the Cold Pretentious Artist (Sarah Beck); and Lynn, the "mature" but power concerned puppeteer. All roles are performed soundly, with particular realism coming from a "golly-gee" Provost and the emotionally distant Beck. I'm not sure if Petrone's Bevvy is quite what was aimed for or not, but she does get a sense of "clingingness" across in any case. Schuerman impersonates...
James has constructed a slick and engaging plot for A Taste for Death. But what makes her work more than just well-polished fiction is her consistently vivid characterizations and keen insights into daily human experience. Aside from a solid mystery, A Taste for Death is an effective psychological exploration of post-war British culture. James investigates the social mores of a defunct nobility and the predicaments of the working class, as well as the poltical attitudes of radical Labour extremists...