Word: unraveler
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Durenberger's golden life began to unravel in 1970, when his first wife died of cancer at 31. With four sons to raise, the eldest only seven, he remarried within a year. Two of his sons developed drug problems, and in 1985 he and his wife temporarily separated and he sought solace in a Christian retreat in a Washington suburb. Rumors that he was having an affair with a 28-year-old secretary were exacerbated when a woman he was with at National Airport screamed that Durenberger had "ruined" her life and knocked him to the floor with her purse...
...smart, caring and gorgeous; they live in a fabulous loft. When they make love, to Bobby Hatfield's orgasmic rendition of Unchained Melody, the sex is so beautiful you could die from it. Too soon, Sam does die -- he is murdered -- in a plot twist that anyone can unravel in an eyewink. Now stranded between heaven and earth, he must use the gifts of a sassy psychic (Whoopi Goldberg) to alert Molly of threats to her life -- and, while he has her attention, to make mad pash one last time...
...Psyches unravel. Odysseus and Chevy Chase become role models. Marriages crack. And the kids? Don't ask. It's summer-vacation time. The skies are jammed, the interstates gridlocked. Getting there demands endurance, adrenaline and maybe a good lawyer. Hardened travelers know the holidays do not really begin until they arrive at their destinations -- and the luggage is finally found...
...common as pickup trucks, U.S. Attorney Robert Wortham has a problem. Some 30 financial institutions have already gone belly-up or come under Government supervision; 59 more are under investigation for fraud. But Wortham, with a team of five FBI agents, doesn't have the manpower needed to unravel the bankers' dastardly deeds. "I've begged. I've pleaded. I've complained up the ladder," said Wortham at a hearing last week before the House Commerce, Consumer, and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. "I could ask my mother to do it . . . but I don't know if she would really know what...
...first it seems as if Jong has deliberately created a boorish, self- deluded heroine, like the flawed narrator in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, whose unreliable confessions the reader learns to unravel and reinterpret. Nope. No such luck. Jong takes Leila Sand seriously. Worse yet, she expects the reader to do the same...