Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best place to look for most of J.G. Ballard's 20-odd books is still in the paperback racks displaying science fiction, somewhere between Asimov and Bradbury. But the popular success of Ballard's Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel about an English boy's coming of age in Shanghai during the World War II Japanese occupation, was followed last year by Steven Spielberg's acclaimed screen adaptation. Thanks to this double-barreled triumph, Ballard has been transformed from a well-kept cult secret into something resembling a household name, with the luxury and burden of knowing that...
...early morning rain had threatened to turn Ohiri Field into a swamp. But right around game time the sun came out, and it was Adelphi (2-4) which got swamped...
...they do it? Some do it for the travel. "The weather there was about 10 degrees warmer that it was here, so we were making the big trip to the sun." Barstow recalls of the soccer team's trip to Clemson...
REMEMBER that picnic in the woods you planned? It sounded fun--until you got there. Remember the hot sun warming up the soda, the ants crawling on the food and the grass blades practicing acupuncture on your back...
Well, that's exactly what Picinic is: a prickly, tepid and altogether irritating play about growing up in the Midwest. And the actors strut across the stage as if they've had too much sun...