Word: sudden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Kent suffered form cancer in the 1970s, doctors pronounced her cured more than a decade ago, and her death was sudden, Foster said...
...South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness of her siblings and the liveliness of city street life. In the end, as if to make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear, grief, loss -- the powerful emotions bound to be loosed by this sudden realization of childhood's most terrifying fantasy -- are avoided by Lee. Carolyn dies quietly offscreen. Her children, and the movie, are denied emotional release...
...staff of this publication, leaped 11% on Tuesday alone, to $40 a share. It closed the week at $39. Some of the recent buying came from Seagram, the beverage giant, which boosted its holdings to 14.9% of Time Warner's shares. But more came from traders reacting to a sudden storm of rumors that Seagram's president, Edgar Bronfman Jr., had finally decided to go for an outright takeover. Rumors endowed Bronfman with a long string of potential allies (several phone companies, the cable-TV firm Tele-Communications Inc. and such Hollywood powers as superagent Michael Ovitz and QVC chief...
...unwitting carrier of a germ that causes flulike symptoms and sudden, grisly death in almost everyone who comes in contact with it. A simple cough and sniffle are the homely signs of doom. In a series of short, effective scenes that hopscotch around the country -- a small town in East Texas, a disease-control lab in Vermont, the streets of New York City -- the plague spreads, causing death, panic, chaos. Practically all that remains of civilization is talk-radio etiquette. A radio host (Kathy Bates), enraged about the "superflu" cover-up, takes calls from panicked listeners who tell of dying...
...senior political advisers -- armed with charts, maps and polling data -- trundled into the Oval Office to illustrate the extent of the danger. With 22 Democratic Senate seats now up for election, compared with 13 in the G.O.P., the Democrats' 56-to-44 majority is in grave danger. With the sudden loss of proven vote getters such as Mitchell and Boren, the Democratic sure-bet states of Maine and Oklahoma are thrown into the toss-up column. As a result, political strategists can envision an outcome that could leave Democrats with nominal but not effective control of the Senate...