Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare time he turned out Christine and Pet Sematary (both 1983) by himself, and The Talisman (1984) in collaboration with Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story. Another collection of short stories appeared in 1985. And still that did not exhaust King. Because publishers were wary of overkill, he submitted five other novels under another name. When Richard Bachman's cover was blown, after Thinner climbed aboard the best-seller list, the pretense was shelved. "It should have been in TIME's Milestones," King grumbles. "Died. Richard Bachman, of cancer of the pseudonym...
...weeks before Aquino's first official visit to Washington. Unnamed White House sources told the New York Times that Aquino should take tougher action against the Communist Party's military wing, the New People's Army, which has more than 20,000 members. Aquino, who has vowed to exhaust all peaceful efforts before resorting to force, responded, "It is I who will decide just what we will do in this country...
...himself in his journals. But there are some striking encounters along the way. In Paris he discusses Indochina with Andre Malraux and observes that the Frenchman has a tic that "is something like a snort from the nose, and when he becomes excited and voluble, it sounds like the exhaust from a car." He visits W.H. Auden in a completely unheated New York City loft. "Wystan started up some queer kind of little stove, but we sat in our overcoats and our breath went up in vapor." Vladimir Nabokov comes for a visit, and they start arguing about how various...
...professor to East Carolina University in Greenville, where he had taught political science for 16 years. But last week East's troubles apparently overwhelmed him. After driving with an aide from Washington to his home in Greenville, the archconservative champion of the right to life killed himself with automobile exhaust fumes. The suicide was the fourth by a U.S. Senator...
Valentino is not the only Roman offended by the huge fast-food emporium, which is located in the heart of the Eternal City. But he is affected more than most because the flues from the kitchen exhaust are directly below the studio windows of his six-story palazzo. The complaint is scheduled to go to court this week. "The whole building smells like a fast-food joint," says Valentino's lawyer. McDonald's owner, Jacques Bahbout, is unhappy about the flap and insists that he is willing to make changes without being dragged into court. Says...