Word: strangers
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While Ravenel is no stranger to South Carolina's political scene, he is a comparative newcomer. In his only previous bid for public office, "Pug," as his friends call him, stunned South Carolina's political hierarchy by winning the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial primary. He was not allowed to participate in the general election, however, for a controversial court decision reversed a lower court's ruling that he met the state's eligibility requirements...
Young, very young, Cauthen also accompanied his father on his smithing rounds at nearby race tracks. He began to help calm animals unnerved by shoeing or perturbed by a stranger's presence. He started to use his hands, and in his hands, horses relaxed. Whether coming from God, genes or good manners, this is the priceless gift for a jockey, the difference between wrestling a horse around a track, only to blunt his spirit for the run, and rating him kindly, handily, through the pace, while conserving enough of his energy for the stretch drive. Steve had the gift even...
...Stranger Is Watching. Clark...
...Stranger Is Watching, Clark...
...always work. The narrator of Coming Close to Donna bashes a woman's head with a tombstone. How come? Because he gives her what she wants. The end. Random calamities may be the order of the day in real life, but that is precisely why truth is stranger than fiction. Art demands more. Hannah provides it often enough. He does not revel in the macabre: he uses it to create sudden emptiness, black holes that demand contemplation. Why, while a housewife is napping and dreaming of sex, does the husband come home and fall into the cellar? Even...