Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moor's Last Sigh is a reaching, rickety palace of a narrative, sprawling in historical scope and capped everywhere with poetic minarets. The whole affair is held together by Rushdie's swift, lyrical, humorous style--or, mostly held together. The novel lacks the brilliant closure of Midnight's Children. Some avenues end artlessly, while others take too many twists. But the story never slows down long enough to get stuck. The crescendo, the penultimate action of the novel, is a manic and violent script worthy of John Woo direction...
...figure out how to make an animal-to-human transplant work. It's hard enough to trick an individual's immune system into accepting tissues from another person. But when organs from an entirely different species are stitched into the human body, immune defenses go into overdrive, leading to swift and irreparable destruction of the foreign tissue. Two years ago, when doctors at the University of Pittsburgh transplanted baboon livers into two seriously ill patients, both men died soon after the operation...
Seemingly out of nowhere, the White House last week released a previously unknown 1993 memo by former administrative aide David Watkins in which he said he fired the travel office staff at the "insistence" of Hillary Clinton. "She conveyed to me in clear terms," Watkins wrote, "...her desire for swift and clear action to resolve the situation." The memo, which Watkins apparently never sent to anyone, contradicts the First Lady's assertions that she had nothing to do with the mass firing...
...SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (Virgin). Raucous and sweet, pretentious and populist, this Chicago-based alternative rock group's hubristic double CD soared as high as its lofty ambitions, an Icarus with wings that worked. Bandleader Billy Corgan is adept at turning out swift, radio-ready hits, yet he also excels at creating epic art-pop songs that explore enigmatic ideas and twisting melodic pathways. For listeners looking to take a journey, not just a joyride, this is a trip that shouldn't be missed...
...moved away from Hanover Park, a drug-infested Chicago suburb frequented by Ward, to try to rebuild her life in middle-class Addison. A few hours later, Ward, along with his cousin, Jacqueline Williams, 28, and her boyfriend, Fedell Caffey, 22, turned up at Evans' apartment at 675 Swift St. According to relatives, Ward was high on crack. Evans let them in, and a brief argument ensued. Prosecutors charge that Caffey then shot Evans in the head with a small-caliber handgun and stabbed her repeatedly with a knife. Next, Ward and Caffey went into the bedroom of Evans' daughter...