Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...prince's image began to unravel inOctober, after The Crimson reported that thesecurity detail Harvard police officers wereproviding to the royal family was taxing routinepolice work. Then sordid details of the prince'spast began to surface. Newspapers reported thatduring the past decade the prince was accused ofholding servants as slaves in Saudi Arabia andEngland and that police searching the prince'sFlorida home were attacked by royal bodyguards,the prince and his wife...