Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...full color illustrations and a glossary of exotic terms like "whomp" and "nelly," whips up in print the sort of kinky, macabre fairealism which has made his name in Madison Avenue windows. It is a big-money, high-luxury alternate reality stripped of those issues which "haunt those with more down-to-earth concerns...
Writer-director John Boorman says he thinks of Martin Cahill, protagonist of The General, as a throwback to those Celtic chieftains who haunt Ireland's misty past--cunning brutes whom legend often turns into romantic rogues...
...once again. Kyle Fisher (Jon Favreau) and Laura Garrety (Cameron Diaz) are a happy couple, soon to be married. Kyle goes with his buddies to Las Vegas for a bachelor party. They do a lot of drinking and a little murdering. They return. Their sins themselves do not haunt them, but rather the realization that they have always been savages underneath. So is everyone else. The happy couple is not as happy as they seem. Surprise...
...vivid and interesting, which is why this novel suffers by any comparison to Bastard out of Carolina or any other tale of an abusive childhood. While Ruth Anne Boatwright remains in the reader's memory, Ray Johnson is easily forgotten, with only the horrible tales of abuse to vaguely haunt the readers, tales of suffering with blank-faced victims at the center...
Coming from a culturally rich but economically poor Roman Catholic farming family in Northern Ireland, a world that would pervade his early works and continues to haunt his writing, Heaney attended Queen's University, Belfast and taught at several other universities before ending up at Harvard, where he taught a poetry workshop every spring semester until he won the Nobel Prize...