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...return to sturdier, more surefire thrills: heaps and heaps of gore (the words rill and freshet crop up in relation to hemorrhaging), ambiguous but decidedly malevolent supernatural powers, and cataclysmic battles between good and ultimate evil. (Is there any other kind in horror novels?) Both books feature a broken-down writer whose output has dwindled from his glory days--one imagines that might be a scary thought for King. But here's an even scarier idea for a novel: What about a writer who couldn't stop writing--ever...
...personal, more spiritual approach to health and healing. As the 20th century draws to an end, there is growing disenchantment with one of its greatest achievements: modern, high-tech medicine. Western medicine is at its best in a crisis--battling acute infection, repairing the wounds of war, replacing a broken-down kidney or heart. But increasingly, what ails America and other prosperous societies are chronic illnesses, such as high blood pressure, backaches, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, depression and acute illnesses that become chronic, such as cancer and AIDS. In most of these, stress and life-style play a part...
...toward a pastoral, unthreatening vision of the disorganized poor, spiced with humor, as in his portraits of tough Irish street urchins or the famous Forty-Two Kids, 1909--not, alas, in this show--depicting a swarm of knobby pale boys horsing around and diving into the Hudson from a broken-down pier...
Jurors watchedO.J. Simpsonflinging his fists and joking about punching "the wife" in exercise videotapes the ex-football star made just weeks beforethe murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.The viewing appeared to cast doubt on the testimony of Simpson's physician, who yesterday characterized Simpson as a limping, broken-down ex-jock...
...broken-down fence between Mexicali, Mexico, and Calexico, California, stretches directly in front of David Gomez Rocha's plywood shack. Seven days a week the 28-year-old rises at 3 a.m. for a two-hour trip across the border to pick asparagus for $4.25 an hour. Granted amnesty in 1987, Gomez Rocha is now a legal alien. His mother has a permit to pick grapes further north in California, returning to Mexicali on weekends. ``Who would do this backbreaking work if they closed the border?'' says Gomez Rocha. ``The U.S. does not have enough farmworkers, so they hire illegals...