Word: talese
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Why did so many people mourn? Why do so many mourn her still? Was it because when the heroine of a fairy tale perishes, something dies in us as well? Diana shared with many people the fond if naive belief that the perfectibility of the family--making it stable, firm...
4 Space A psychiatrist's comfortable world is shaken when he encounters several patients with similar tales of alien visitation. Writer-director Tina Landau's wondrous production for Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre is a magical mystery tour, packed with inventive sound and lighting effects, that explores cosmic questions of mankind...
1 INTO THIN AIR (Villard) In May 1996 Jon Krakauer reached the 29,028-ft. summit of Mount Everest. His assignment for Outside magazine would, it seemed, end in triumph. But the day did not. A storm arose that killed 11 other climbers. Krakauer's book dramatically reports this calamity...
Perhaps--unless that historian is Ed Ball. His clan stretches back to Englishman Elias ("Red Cap") Ball, who came to Carolina in 1698 for his inheritance of 740 acres and 25 slaves. His descendants would ultimately rule 25 plantations and 4,000 slaves. As a child, Ed Ball heard tales...
Many in Ball's family protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left...