Word: thunderations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thunder Island (1963, wrote) d. Jack Leewood...
Self-deprecation is often a pre-emptive strike to steal a detractor's thunder. At times, the reader half hopes that Janet Malcolm will tell Green that he is too hard on himself, that he really is an intelligent, sympathetic man who is defending the faith in an age of pill popping and package deals. But she maintains an orthodox silence with rewarding results. Eventually Green's faults and peeves make his good qualities even more believable. Technically, he also serves as a vital navigational point in the author's explorations. She discusses a number of analytic...
...bright summer day, when suddenly all of Beirut shook with the roar of bombers and the thunder of antiaircraft artillery. Small puffs of white smoke began to dot the sky as local militia groups fired in vain at the screaming jets. When the fury of the attack finally ended, two hours later, at least 200 people were dead and 600 injured, victims of the first Israeli air raid against the Lebanese capital since 1978. The target of the jets: specific Palestinian offices within the city...
...hiding at home, before he joined a VA-supported outreach center in Queens. There, he and two other veterans work as a team to locate similar cases of radical withdrawal ?men hunkered down in their little psychic tunnels, like Viet Cong staying safe from all that American rolling thunder...
...basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...