Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teacher named Susan Rachel Allan Seckler Turner is planning a scholarly study of "Twins, Doubles and Schizophrenia in the American Literary Imagination.'" She is a twin. So is her husband, Fenwick Scott Key Turner. And so is their creator, Author John Earth, whose fiction (including this novel) fits admirably into Susan's thesis. Could it be that characters create their authors and art generates life? What if everyone is really living in someone else's dream...
Defending champion Harvard guaranteed itself a second-place finish behind Brandeis yesterday by splitting a doubleheader with Tufts--falling, 5-0, before coming back in the nightcap, 7-6--in Medford, the team's ninth split in 11 twin-bills so far this season...
...compromise. He suggested that a three-month delay in Reagan's 10% tax cut be coupled with a similar delay in granting the 1983 COLA benefits. Reagan's senatorial friend Paul Laxalt argued for the compromise, but the President demurred. Reagan, however, did agree to consider the twin delays as part of a compromise package. Now it was the Democrats' turn to respond. O'Neill leaned toward Boiling and asked, "Dick?" Replied Boiling: "We just can't take that." By Boiling's count, Reagan was offering to trade a $7 billion budget savings...
...third. And in the top of the fourth, with the bases loaded, one out, and three runs already across, shortstop Marlene Schools went to her left for a one-hopper, and gunned it to second baseman Alissa Friedman--who relayed to first just in time to complete a twin-killing, and uncommon play in softball...
...author eventually went to college and became a successful writer. These facts are not part of Bronx Primitive. It ends with Kate, a budding beauty, ready to take on the male animal in her first form-fitted dress. "Lolita," she says, "was born decades later, yet [she was] a twin of the thirteen-and-a-half-year-old striding through Crotona Park, passing the spiky red flowers toward a kingdom of mesmerized men." The reference to Nabokov's lollipop avenger is especially suggestive because Simon's book is reminiscent of the Russian master's own recollections...