Word: winded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter nights when the icy west wind swept the town, I sometimes halted on my post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
...heroine is a passionate, headstrong beauty from the South who struggles to save the family estate and falls for a dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
...Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that...
...relations with nature, we've been playing a deadly game of cowboys and Indians. We all started as Indians. Many primitive cultures -- and the indigenous peoples still clinging today to their pockets of underdevelopment -- regarded the earth and all its creatures as alive. Nature was a whistling wind tunnel of spirits. With the rise of a scientific, clockwork cosmos and of missionary Christianity, with its message of man's dominion and relentless animus against paganism, nature was metaphorically transformed. It became dead meat...
...Layton, said contracts at DOE were drawn so loosely that the department was forced to pay fully even when contractors defrauded the Government. Since January, 22 people, mostly defense contractors and consultants, have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of a variety of charges in the so-called Ill Wind investigation into procurement abuses...