Word: versions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surprising that a writer tempted to kill off her moneymaking detectives resists repeating herself. The New Girl Friend, a volume of short stories published earlier this year, displayed a dry, macabre humor. Live Flesh is an intimately detailed working-class character study. And A DarkAdapted Eye is a contemporary version of the sprawling Edwardian family tale and a minor classic. Its central theme is the nature of how to tell a story. It begins, and begins again and again -- each time more ripely. Its searching in direction after direction, its inclusion of swatches of pseudojournalism, its final metaphysical ruminations...
...books, which contained six pages of "football basics," complete with diagrams of formations and drawings to show the difference between a forward pass and a pitchout, got a workout as the game progressed and fans tried to grapple with the live version of football. "We have a great deal to learn, don't we?" mused one befuddled watcher. Most of the running plays, with the thunderous exception of Perry's one-yard touchdown rumble, went unnoticed and uncheered. "It's easier to see the ball on the telly," Sean Dyer, 24, of Melton Mowbray, said, by way of explaining...
...missionary medicine man has been using a crude version of the police stun gun, a weapon more commonly employed to subdue emotionally disturbed suspects. He says that lives have also been saved by tapping power from the outboard motor of a canoe. Though snakebite experts say Guderian's treatment defies explanation, as word of his shocking cure has spread, pilots, missionaries and mining-company employees have begun carrying stun guns into the jungle...
...Ehrlichman's The China Card, a thriller loosely based on the China policy of his former boss President Nixon. Particularly since Watergate, journalists have attained star quality, becoming part of the panoply of fictional heroes and villains. Indeed, Regrets Only hit Washington at the same time as the movie version of Heartburn, Nora Ephron's fictionalized account of the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein...
...What modern combat lacks in humanity, it more than makes up for in intensity," observes a reporter aboard an American frigate that has just repelled a Soviet missile attack. The same could be said of Tom Clancy's new military thriller, Red Storm Rising. In this version of blocs in conflict, the most compelling actors are the high-tech weapons that Clancy portrays with deadly accuracy...