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...letters. It has taken a while for that shoe to drop. The Middle Ground, British Author Margaret Drabble's ninth novel, appeared in 1980 and underscored a process that had begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general. Her models -- Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Arnold Bennett (whose biography she wrote...
...never know how you will react to a scream until you hear one. I can tell you how you will react at first. You will freeze. Your head will snap like an alarmed bird's and your eyes will swell, long before any practical choices begin to form between hiding under the bed and leaping to the rescue. You will freeze because you will recognize the sound. It comes from you; all the panic and the pain; all the screams of one's life, uttered and quashed, there in that dreadful eruption that has scattered the air. All yours...
...Bird had six points during a 14-2 spurt that gave Boston a 30-15 lead in the first quarter, and the Celtics extended the margin to 38-21 by scoring the first six points of the second period...
...Larry Bird added 16 for the Celtics but was only 5-for-18 from the field. Trent Tucker and Mark Jackson added 12 points apiece for the Knicks...
Indeed, as late as five hours after Edison's top nuclear official, Ralph G. Bird, ordered the workers home, company spokesmen had sparse details on the problems that occurred over the weekend...