Word: weres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When no signs of fatherly concern emerged, the police concocted another scheme. Four weeks ago they released Fredy and then waited. Just as they anticipated, Fredy eventually headed for his father -- not knowing that the police were tailing him. The confrontation finally came last Friday southwest of Cartagena. Fredy and...
Baker's ideas for recasting the structures of U.S.-European cooperation -- dubbed "Bakerstroika" by British pundits -- were a first cut at answering a question implicit in the collapse of the Iron Curtain and the end of the cold war: as the Soviet military threat shrinks, what does Europe need with...
An extraordinary set they were. His Carpathian peasant nurse, Cassandra, part witch and part illiterate earth mother, was given to romping naked with the pack of family dogs -- "a Lady Godiva with a pitch-black mane," whose fierce nurturing exuberance was in utmost contrast to the coddling anxieties of a...
Chinks appeared in the White Knight's armor. McGuane and Crockett were divorced, and a nine-month marriage to actress Margot Kidder (Superman) came and went. In 1977 McGuane took a third trip to the altar, with Alabama-born Laurie Buffet, who is the sister of his friend country singer...
It was only a matter of time before McGuane looked through the bottom of a shot glass and glimpsed his own mortality. Observes longtime friend and fellow novelist Jim Harrison (Legends of the Fall): "Like a lot of writers, we started out reading Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky, and you think that...