Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another chapter is hurtling toward what its author hopes will be a breathtaking close. Storm clouds are gathering, foreshadows lengthening. You are firmly in the grip of what the book jacket avers is "Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror." Your eye skips to the bottom of the page, and this is what you read...
These physical menaces do not include that of depression, which has brought thousands of paralyzed people to a paralysis of the mind and spirit. Reeve too succumbs from time to time. Nor do they include the fear attached to everything new--modified versions of the terror he experienced at taking that first shower at U.Va. Then there is the fact of immobility itself, which entails an entire reorganization of one's image. He loathes the fact that he is developing a small pot belly because of atrophied abdominal muscles...
...wonder if this is only the beginning of a nightmare of terrorism in the U.S. Europe is accustomed to terrorism, and has learned how to handle it. This doesn't seem to be the case in the U.S. As one of the most influential countries in the world and a global player in international politics, America is not only vulnerable, but a first-class target for extremist forces. Before the bomb attacks on the World Trade Center and Oklahoma City, the U.S. had been spared. I deeply hope the latest tragic episodes will not be a turning point to bringing...
...note in "Lost Magic" that "Terror now lurks in the shadows like a stranger." I suggest that brotherhood is there also. The picture accompanying the story shows a wounded white man cradling a more seriously wounded black man in his arms. The world's salvation lies in such love being more powerful than fear, not in better security and bomb-detection devices. CHRISTINE KERBSTAT Julian, California...
...life, said Pythagoras, "is like the great and crowded assembly at the Olympic Games," which is a roundabout, Olympian way of saying the Games are as full of terror and chaos as the lives they temporarily eclipse. On a less exalted level, in Atlanta's official fairy tale of the Games, the first of the five Olympian qualities that a hero must master (in the realm where the Olympian flame always burns bright) is perseverance...