Word: thor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fables that the young au thor's gifts are best displayed, as if confinement had forced her to think in brief, ironic parables. In Blurry, the Explorer, a bear cub ventures into a human city and becomes the intimate - and the quarry -of dogs, cars and people. At last he re turns to his mother. "I wanted to discover the world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen...
...companies sold stock for the first time last month, and the fast pace is expected to continue this year. Among the firms making initial offerings last week were DNA Plant Technology, a New Jersey agricultural genetics firm; Sporto, a Boston manufacturer of women's foot wear; and Thor Industries, an Ohio maker of motor homes and trailers. Some of the largest firms going public are savings and loan associations, which are trying to raise capital after several years of disastrous losses. But the most intriguing companies for Wall Street are ones that have names beginning with "bio" or ending...
With Merner voluntarily sidelined, freshman, Brian Shaffield and Ray Carthy along with sophomore Jeffrey Levy tallied six of the Crimson's seven foil round points, while Dom Randolph and Thor Willbanks led the way in epee, each posting 3-0 records. Harvard gave up only one bout in epee and two in foil...
...girl who psychically absorbs the shame that others should but do not feel until she becomes a ravening albino panther, be heading animals and humans alike. These surreal people do not simply stand for such concepts as overpopulation or guilt; they also take their places in what the au thor calls "the infinitely rich and cryptic texture of human life...
When President Reagan delivers a speech, Thor Sevcenko notes, nobody assumes he wrote it himself...