Word: thins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coffee finca (plantation) that stretched as far, it is said, as the volcano four miles away. On New Year's Day, guerrillas swept up the back road, firing into the village as they came. Ramón Portillo was killed instantly as the bullets pierced the thin green door of the house. They were only stray shots, maintains his widow Graciela, nothing more than that. But other versions of the story are softly voiced in the village...
Instead, Hawking thinks nuclear was is "by far our most dangerous worry." He endorses the new disarmament movements in Europe and hopes they'll at least succeed in removing nuclear weapons from Britain and the continent "I thin that we should all disarm now and not wait for the other side to do so first. The survival of the human race is much more important than the difference between capitalism and communism...
...person cast that is admirably flexible, Remak Ramsay is outstanding. He combines a ramrod to-the-manor-born stance with a tissue-thin vulnerability. This holds true through a variety of roles: a small boy who is devastated when a maid (his surrogate mother) tells him that she is leaving to start a family of her own; a middle-aged man painfully humiliated by his teen-age son's awareness of his liaison with his best friend's wife; an old man meticulously detailing his own funeral arrangements to his son while soliciting some final word or gesture...
Paradise may not be a masterpiece. Cheever's characters, after all, are thin, doll-like creations next to those of his colleagues Updike and Bellow. And even though the novella has a broader vision than one might otherwise expect from Cheever, it still lacks the acute moral curiosity one expects from a greater writer. He still yields to the impulse to pattern events, to make a sort of literary bon-bon although this one is finely textured and eminently palatable...
...roller derby is more prevalent than ever, what with retired Philadelphia Flyer Dave Schultz (most penalty minutes alltime) regretting the hockey "enforcer's" life in his new memoirs, and the Los Angeles Kings' Paul Mulvey refusing to answer his coach's call to fight. Onto this thin ice skates Gretzky...