Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Occasionally, while the elder Guinness is turning the TV dial, searching for the news or a nature program, he comes across one of his many selves. "I switch it off within 30 seconds," he says with a slight shudder. "Once I've done something, it doesn't really have any...
To televise or not to televise has been a controversial question. The Senate killed three previous attempts, in 1981, 1982 and 1984, to allow video coverage. Those opposed to cameras in the chamber feared that exposure would forever alter the leisurely, idiosyncratic, old-boy nature of the Senate, which allows...
Down at the post office the talk among people waiting for their mail is of how bad the cicadas are and how much worse they will get as they become more numerous. Over at the cafe the morning crowd is discussing how to do them in. Squashing them between thumb...
William Boyd, 33, who until recently taught at Oxford, brings considerable zest to this fluent, raucous, untidy narrative. He has written two previous novels--An Ice-Cream War, set in World War I, and A Good Man in Africa, a comedy that takes place in a former British possession. Both...
And so, at the age of nearly 50, and with very little official experience, Indira Gandhi almost accidentally became the leader of India's millions. She seemed to have no clear idea of what to do. The economy lurched into a major recession, bad weather brought threats of famine...