Word: tireless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vidal -- perversely brilliant novelist, acerbic gadfly and now movie actor -- lives in self-imposed partial exile in a massive villa in the postcard- picturesque town of Ravello on Italy's Amalfi coast. All his surroundings are serene. Vidal, 67, is a tireless, disciplined author, and his house is in every detail of location and layout designed to enhance concentration...
...women also go beyond their duty to the empire: not only do they "lie still and think of England," but they pursue the men, and each other, with tireless voracity. In the second act, which is set in 1979 London, the frolics include an orgy in which Clive's daughter Victoria (Cori Lynn Peterson) invokes Ishtar while romping with her gay brother Edward (now played by Brain van Gorder) and her lesbian lover Lynn (Vonnie Roemer...
...tireless fighter for good government, in addition to being a creative, intelligent, funny, hardworking person," said City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55, who says Romer inspired him when he first en- tered city politics. "We will...
...they are, can be only a palliative. They do not end the siege of Sarajevo or the Serbian occupation of about two-thirds of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Serbs make up less than a third of the population. A political settlement is still out of sight, but Britain's tireless Lord Carrington, the European Community's mediator, returned to Sarajevo last week in a futile attempt to restart the stalled peace talks...
...been resolved. Hyde leads us lengthily through the murk of old lies, from California to a wave-swept cliffside in Scotland to another cliff in Wales to East Germany and back to the black depths of a lost gold mine in the Mojave. Quick, light a match! Nope, despite tireless soliloquizing by hero and villain (which is which constitutes the book's main puzzle), motivation and plot remain obscure...