Word: fragments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respectful writers and directors astray. The problem is that the true life of this novel, for all the bustling melodrama of its surface, is inward; its highest pleasures are to be found in the silence it maintains about its deepest thoughts. It tips these only in a descriptive fragment here, a line of laconic, often funny dialogue there. It is perfectly possible to read the novel and enjoy it as if it had been written by that best of boys' book writers, John R. Tunis...
...meant to wreck a local petrochemical complex, exploded outside the compound. A truck that burst wildly through the gates of the U.S. embassy was piled high with 45 butane gas cylinders, but only ten of them exploded. Very little was left of Suicide Driver Raad Muftin Ajeel but a fragment of one of his fingers. That was enough for police to identify the terrorist and, apparently, to round up most of his accomplices. While handling the case with singular aplomb, the Kuwaitis also detained scores of suspected dissidents for questioning and deported hundreds of others...
...power. They speak volumes with their family artifacts and life patterns etched in furniture, stairways and backyards. New paint sometimes glamorizes the houses too much. The home had not been "quite so shiny" when he lived in it, Reagan confessed. In the end, the memories, evoked by a fragment of wallpaper or a warm corner in the kitchen, are the stuff of such museums...
...have great luck or clout, you may get a couple of the few non-press and non-big-shot seats at a hockey game or a figure-skating competition, but there is just no way to watch more than a fragment of a ski race in person. Ski jumping is splendid for eyeball-viewing?all those figures flying through the air?but the races are hopeless. Flat or steep, it does not matter; you pick a good turn and watch the bodies come over the hill or out of the trees, zip, zip. Did you see Bill Koch or Phil...
Only 15% of the original beard is known to exist. Most of that is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but a 31 -in.-long fragment sits in a back room at the British Museum in London. The Egyptians want the missing link reinstated. The British have agreed to loan them the fragment, but only on condition that it be returned to London within ten years and that it not be reincorporated into the monument. Fearing that Anglo-Egyptian relations may prove as hard to restore as pharaonic constructions, the Egyptians have hit upon a Solomonic solution: while negotiations continue...