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...presence of this obsessive, comforting vision links Dad to Birdy (1979), Wharton's acclaimed first novel about an adolescent boy who wants to become a canary and fly. But Dad is a rather more tenuous success than its predecessor. For one thing, it dissipates some of its power in prolixity. When Dad goes through his brief recovery, Tremont notes, within a few pages, "he's like a seventeen-year-old . . . he could have some feelings of being physically thirteen or fourteen years old . . . he has all the ego isolation and drive of a twenty-year-old." These sound...
...Brown refused to comment on the nature of this evidence, Georgia Crime Lab Director Larry Howard identified it as "fibers" that were similar to some but not all of the fibers mentioned as evidence in earlier cases. "It is a link," said Stivers of the material, "if a somewhat tenuous...
...Crimson, led by co-captain Glenn Alexander's 77, totaled 321 to finish third after the first day of the tournament, held at the Potowamut Country Club in West Warwick, R.I. Perennial rival URI charged out early to compile 313 for a tenuous first-place standing, while day-glo Dartmouth pulled up close behind with...
...miles across the Lebanese border. Palestinian units responded with Katyusha rocket attacks against villages that straddle the Israeli-Lebanese border. Artillery duels broke out again between Syrian troops of the Arab Deterrent Force and right-wing Christian militiamen in Beirut and in the eastern city of Zahle, ending a tenuous two-week ceasefire...
Jonathan Hart, a very distant echo of Nick Charles in The Thin Man, is described as a "self-made millionaire"whose "hobby is murder" on Hart to Hart. But his business connections are tenuous, and how he made all those millions is never clear. Mrs. Oleson, who with her husband runs the general store in Little House on the Prairie, reneges on an agreement to buy honey from children. In the series Alice, the son of the program's star urges her to work somewhere else because of the low wages paid by Mel, owner of the diner where...