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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While changing a tire near Scape Ore Swamp at 2 a.m. last June, Christopher Davis was set upon by a 7-ft.-tall scaly lizard with glowing red eyes. As Davis tells it, he jumped into his Toyota just as the creature's claws grabbed the door handle. Swerving left and right, the 17-year-old boy managed to shake the beast off. He shared his story with a few friends in nearby Bishopville. Then last month Mary Way reported that her Ford LTD was scratched and clawed near the swamp. Sheriff's deputies initially tied the two events together...
...book begins with her decision to depart with Joyce for England at the age of 20 even though he would not marry her, and reflects back on her early life in the city of Galway in the West of Ireland. Maddox touches upon her early romantic relationships, including two of her early loves who died while she was just a teenager, and her family...
...Nomura opened offices in New York City's Equitable Building, becoming the first Japanese securities firm with an overseas branch. That inspired proud lines in a 1929 company song: "The Japanese flag is hoisted in the morning breeze on Wall Street/ And the Statue of Liberty smiles upon/ Our truly global power." After World War II, Nomura was the first Japanese securities company to return to New York with an independent office, which opened at 61 Broadway in 1953. Nomura was also the first Japanese firm to open a securities branch in China (1982) and to obtain a seat...
...already preposterous, Westlake explores the mentality that capable, rational people would need in order to crank out such stuff. In a particularly wry inversion of the norms of detective fiction, a young woman reporter bursts into the newsroom on her first day to tell her bosses she has come upon a murdered corpse just a few hundred yards from their office -- only to have it explained to her that unless the victim is a household name, this item has no news value. The young woman soon learns to excel at the chicanery by which the tabloid's "stories" are concocted...
...choice can be chaotic and dangerous. School curriculums have been adapted to teach about new topics: AIDS, ADOLESCENT SUICIDE, DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE, INCEST. Trust is the child's natural inclination, but the world has become untrustworthy. The hazards of the adult world, its sometimes fatal temptations, descend upon children so early that the ideal of childhood is demolished...