Word: unraveler
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...episode to read letters from women who have written to recount erotic tales; years ago, you see, Jake's fiance killed herself after a torturous affair with another man, leaving Jake with no choice but to spend the rest of his life soliciting dirty letters in an effort to unravel the female mind. The stories contained in his correspondence form the plot of each show. Many of them feature men, like Jake, who are wounded souls, victims of sexually aggressive women...
Much as the Depression bequeathed to our parents a reflexive economic insecurity, so too the late 1960s left many of us with a permanent sense of how violently our country's social fabric could unravel under stress. Though with time the healing would come, it has never quite wiped away the memory of our classmates' blood on the steps of University Hall...
...movie staples there, crossing the tyrannic mill owner (Robert Mitchum), sleeping with Thell (Mili Avital), the hooker with the heart of gold, and shooting her no-good lover Charlie(Gabriel Byrne) when guntoting Charlie finds the two of them in bed. From there, however, the Western idiom begins to unravel as our hero, with a bullet in his heart, disappears into the wilderness to hide from the posse sent after...
...idea has obvious nationalistic appeal and makes scientific sense as well. Modern archaeologists like to study objects in context to try to unravel how, why and by whom they were used. Clearly, having Priam's Treasure on hand would help them do that--finally making the discoveries of the brilliant and devious Heinrich Schliemann fully as important as he thought they were...
...homeless on Sunday as the two-day cease-fire between government and rebel forces wavered and aid workers evacuated the seaside capital. Civilians scrambled for food and shelter as government soldiers continued shelling rebel army barracks and sporadic arms fire erupted downtown. The latest fighting, which threatens to unravel a tenous peace reached last year, points up the very deep fault lines in the country, says TIME's Andrew Purvis: "There are few recognized authorities. Militia men will steal your car, they will shoot you, they will do what they want depending on their mood." The reasons are largely economic...