Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sudden, inexplicable eruption of violence typifies what many find troubling about Oates' fiction. If the purpose of art is to provide a comprehensible context, an explanatory train of circumstances, for human activity, then Oates certainly falls short. She knows this risk and consistently runs it anyhow. Her obsession remains...
As that untidy process lurches along and as Dukakis tries to navigate between competing factions, his strategy is clear on one point: it is time to focus as much fire as possible on the departing President and the Republican who would succeed him. Like all other Democrats, the Duke has...
With a resonant baritone voice that rumbles out of a burly figure topped off by a scraggly helmet of gray hair and an untidy beard, Bork commands attention by sound and sight. After 34 years as lawyer, professor, author and judge, this bear of a man has a professional reputation...
The Mobro's ill-starred journey resulted from a deal made by Alabama Entrepreneur Lowell Harrelson, founder of National Waste Contractors, Inc., to haul away a massive batch of refuse from Islip, N.Y., and other townships. After being freighted with the garbage -- which was mashed into some 2,200 untidy...
The "stakeout" had begun at 11;00 on Thursday morning, the third day of maneuvering in the Senate over HR 2, an untidy, bloated package of $87.9 billion in transportation funds, with an increase in the speed limit tacked on to attract Western legislators' support. Rhetoric aside, nobody cared what...