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Joan Didion
Joan Didion , 1934-, American writer, b. Sacramento, Calif., grad. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1956. Her works often explore the despair of contemporary American life, a condition she views as produced by the disintegration of morality and values. She is known for a cool and almost brittle style... Read more |
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Book of life
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Unabomber
Unabomber or Unabomer , name given by the FBI to the elusive perpetrator of a series of bombings (1975-95) in the United States that killed 3 and wounded 23. The targets were mainly academics in technological disciplines, airline executives, and executives in businesses thought to affect the... Read more |
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Lockerbie
Lockerbie , village (1991 pop. 3,892), Scotland, site of a 1988 airplane crash. On Dec. 21, 1988, a New York-bound Pan Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight as a result of a terrorist bomb and crashed in and around Lockerbie. The crash killed all 259 people aboard and 11 on the ground. In Nov., 1991, the... Read more |
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Clarence Shepard Day
Clarence Shepard Day 1874-1935, American essayist, b. New York City, grad. Yale, 1896. His biographical sketches of his parents, God and My Father (1932), Life with Father (1935), and Life with Mother (1937), won him popular recognition; incidents from these three books were used by Howard... Read more |
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life boat
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Eternal life
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Kate Greenaway
Kate Greenaway 1846-1901, English illustrator and watercolorist. She is famous for her fanciful, humorous, delicately colored drawings of child life. She influenced children's clothing and the illustrating of children's books and was often imitated, though never successfully. Among the books for... Read more |
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Life Review
LIFE REVIEW Life review is a progressive return to consciousness of memories and unresolved past conflicts for reevaluation and resolution. It is a normal, developmental task of the later years, a private process that differs with each individual. This evaluative process is believed to occur... Read more |
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Charles Dana Gibson
Charles Dana Gibson 1867-1944, American illustrator, b. Roxbury, Mass., studied at the Art Students League and in Paris. His work for Life, Century, Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's Weekly, and other magazines established him as a leading illustrator and delineator of aristocratic social ideals,... Read more |
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TALKING VOLUMES; MEMOIR; Writing, wrestling with grief; To her already...
...York of acute pancreatitis), Didion - this thoroughly rational woman...details are the things that Didion can barely bring herself to...like little, almost-hesitant bombs throughout the book. Every...and heroic precisely because Didion allows you to imagine ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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'MIAMI' DIDION PROSE STAYS COOL BENEATH THE FLORIDA SUN.(Perspective)
...what they need to believe," Didion writes. It's the language...vagaries, and there's the rub. Didion's is the city with the greatest...who was accused of helping bomb a Cuban airliner in 1976, is...offer," the author writes. Didion provides a narrative line ... |
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U. S. of Stupido
...t walk away from." -Joan Didion Seven weeks to Election Day. Prep the bomb shelters. We're only at the...become a series of unrelenting bomb drops filled with odious Republican...smacked last week by that stink bomb about Obama wanting to teach... |
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The harnessing of Cuban honor and fury
...President has praised. Sensibly, Didion connects the plots and ends...slaughtering Indians again. Didion doesn't remark the connection...of mortal dread. In Miami, Didion found evil worth her moral...is The Making of the Atomic Bomb. |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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PAPERBACKS; Books.
...Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Harper Perennial [pounds sterling...days before Christmas, Joan Didion was sitting down to dinner in...modern world shies away from. Didion's courage in confronting it...snook at Herr Hitler while the bombs rained down. ... |
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Foreign policy or fodder for a good novel?(NEWS)
...Bush and his aides. The novelist Joan Didion elaborated that theme, deliciously...biological weapons and is developing nuclear bombs. Bush brushes aside arguments by allies...to enlist the novelists, and not only Didion. Legions of creative thinkers are needed... |
 "The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)")
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SEVENTH LUCKY FOR INDIANS, HELPS HOLD OFF ROCKIES, 8-5
...Kenderick Moore on first. But Pellow's bomb, and indeed it was, was quite a homer...winning run. On Pellow's hit, Kris Didion tried to score from second, but was thrown...in Carlos Beltran. Two batters later, Didion lifted a sacrifice fly to left to score... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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THE `I' AT THE CENTER OF `DIARY'
...those desperate deluded types what Joan Didion would call an "anxious malcontent" who...that I might as well be nurturing a time bomb. In this way I have something in common...thing he learned that day illustrate what Didion once wrote is the point of all diaries... |
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Land of the freewheeler
...of such venerable commentators as Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson and now...Though he's a more visual writer than Didion, and less of a monomaniac than either...from the Mob to Sinatra, boxing to bombs, and Mormons to aliens. And while this... |
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WRITERS BACK RUSHDIE; CHAIN TO RESTOCK BOOK
...E.L. Doctorow, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Larry McMurtry and John Gregory Dunne...B. Dalton at Copley Square reported a bomb threat at 2 p.m. yesterday. The store was evacuated but no bomb was found, police said. President Bush... |
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