Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...praised as one of the best books of 1991. But whenever one of his narratives loses its forward motion, as happens early in this big, messy, off-and-on brilliant novel, Powers tends to go for flash. He sets off skyrockets, then more skyrockets. Great, arcing bursts of language streak across not just pages but whole chapters. (On pollution: "Maroon-brown patinas of condensing air . . . the noxious residue, the breakdown skeins of hydrocarbon linkages . . .") Then, before the afterimage can fade, the bedazzled firmament detonates again in grander, wilder colors. Great stuff, the reader thinks, and does anyone have an aspirin...
Unbowed Mets pitcher sets record losing streak...
Brown had an unprecedented trio of triumphs at the Eastern Sprints, the International Rowing Association Championship, and the National Collegiate Championship. The team continued its streak Sunday...
...leaving the Council, Sullivan runs the risk of ending a 57-year streak of Sullivan family presence on the council, which meets in City Hall in the Sullivan chambers. The line of Sullivans just may continue, however...
...this birthday evening the puckish John Paul, waiting to gobble down take- out Chuckee Cheese pizza, is deliriously happy to be the center of attention. But his sister Mercedes, 18, has become worried. She has noticed an insect bite on the boy's lower arm, accompanied by a red streak running upward and inward toward his heart. The pediatrician is called, and the verdict is wrenching: the bite appears to be infected; John Paul must go straight to the emergency room...