Word: stun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character's inability to accept his guilt about his feelings of love for his dead friend Skipper. Cox's Maggie exploits Brick's passivity and seeming impotence as she desperately tries to reawaken his love for her. Cox portrays a sensual, hyperactive, and manipulative Maggie...
...erase the awful memories and their replays. Mason lived in a private, disconnected world that finally crashed in 1981 when he was arrested for and convicted of dope smuggling. "No one [was] more shocked than I," he recalls. Chickenhawk, with its vertical plunge into the thickets of madness, will stun readers as well...
...coming back this fall worked out well, because the guys on the team didn't treat us like we were different than the other people in their Cash says "They really made me and Stun like we were a part of their group...
...extent of the Israeli attack seemed to stun some units of the P.L.O., although others fought back valiantly. Noting that P.L.O. counterfire was becoming sporadic, an Israeli general told TIME Correspondent David Halevy, "I hope they are running out of ammunition, I hope they are close to the breaking point...
That will not happen to these books. They are printed on opaque, acid-free paper; unlike most volumes published after 1840, these will not slowly eat themselves up. Each one contains more than 1,300 pages, sewn together, not glued. Many uniform or limited editions try to stun with sheer size and ornate design, fancy letters marching across deserts of white space. Here, the money and care have gone into providing readable type, and plenty of it. These books are bound handsomely enough to grace any bookshelf; more important, their size (approximately 5 in. by 8 in.) and weight (about...