Word: unwindings
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...wonderfully loose- jointed narrative style slips in and out of comic exaggeration with practiced ease. There are no seams between the ambling lies of the 19th century frontier yarn spinner (his literary heritage) and the slick ambiguities of the 20th century novelist. When the tall tales have room to unwind to the horizon, as they do in Lonesome Dove (1985), McMurtry's haunting legend of the last cattle drives, the result is extraordinary. This sort of storytelling works best with a lot of action, however, and the new novel describes a man becalmed...
...wanted to insure that seniors would be able to unwind in the manner they have in the past," Grossman said. He said that the party hosts will be in charge of distributing the schedule...
...York Knicks in 1967, his eyes widened as his lawyer described all the ways he could shelter his six-figure income. "I wasn't just a player," he recalls. "I was a depreciable asset." On one road trip, when his teammates went to the movies to unwind, Bradley curled up with heavy tomes by Economist Milton Friedman and Tax Specialist Stanley Surrey and first read that tax rates could be greatly lowered if loopholes were closed...
...second half went better, a succession ofstrong numbers culminating in Copaken'shypercharged "Too Turned On," which garnered anovation from the audience. But the thread of thestory started to unwind as the cast tried to coverfor a series of lighting snafus, malfunctioningmikes and absent slides that clarify the meaningof the lyrics...
...tourists sunbathe on quiet beaches, hillsides are dotted with the carcasses of U.S. armor. At Camp Holloway, in the Central Highlands, youngsters play outside the old U.S. barracks, while visitors can still make out THE SWAMP scrawled across the wall of the club in which helicopter pilots used to unwind. And outside the shattered Citadel in the ancient capital of Hue, where thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed, the air still seems touched by the sickly smell of death...