Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RITA MAE BROWN loves Mark Twain. She says he was American to the marrow, like herself. Somehow Mark Twain's Americanness is more comfortable than Rita Mae Brown's. Back in the 19th century, there was still room for innocence. Now it's a little harder to come by, and most of our attempts take the form of "The Waltons"--self-congratulatory and insipid. Molly Bolt of Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown's previous book, came close. But in Six of One, Brown tackles a much more serious task. Rubyfruit Jungle was a sad-funny autobiographical sketch of a young lesbian growing...
Good storytellers have a way of convincing their audiences that they are describing times that were somehow more vivid, more intense, more alive than anything happening...
...them altogether." Analysts believe that the Vice Premier's power grab worries Chairman Hua, who has been attempting to keep the purges from splitting the party leadership into pro-and anti-Teng factions. The fact that Wu lingers on in the Politburo suggests that Hua has somehow worked out a face-saving compromise - allowing Teng his vengeance while preventing bloodshed from weakening party unity...
...keep going until you hit Montauk Point, the eastern tip of the island, windswept home of fishermen and lobstermen and a charming stone lighthouse that somehow never managed to keep scores of Atlantic clippers away from the homicidal rocks off the coast. Montauk is also the home of Perry Duryea, who wants very much to be governor of the state, and who may well get his wish quite soon...
...minute compromise the city would have floundered. The fact that he had no real choice--that he could not possibly have blocked the city's recovery and still expect to run for governor three years later--does not intrude on his creative analysis. Like a losing football coach who somehow manages to take credit for the other team's victory, Duryea has been able to double-talk and double-think his most notable legislative retreat into a key win--and he is getting away with it. The most recent New York Post poll shows Duryea leading Carey...