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...tone, are darker and less distanced from their own pain. "What is Seized" is a fragmented account of a mother-daughter relationship (one of Moore's recurrent obsessions) in which both characters attempt to come to terms with the painful legacy of a bad husband and father: 'Cold men destroy women,' my mother wrote to me years later. They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed to their souls like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think you see life and vitality and sun and greenness, and then when you love them...
Budget cuts did force reductions in alternative programs at the high school, though they did not completely destroy any program, said Peterkin...
...bill would destroy Cambridge's condominium conversion law, "Sullivan said yesterday. This law requires approval from the Rent Control Board for owner occupancy and the sale of rental unit...
...clearest message of Men and Angels is that the absence of maternal affection can destroy, although not invariably. Gordon's questions and her manner of raising them are more interesting than the possible answers. The novel's intellectual vigor is occasionally blunted by the earnest opacity of its heroine. Despite the assurances of two different characters that Anne has "a first-rate mind," she often must thrash through her solipsism and self-absorption toward revelations that most adults and bright children already know. She sees a pair of boots in a Manhattan store and realizes, since she is now winning...
...current plan is to base 100 missiles in existing Minuteman silos in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska, the very storage points that were deemed indefensible at the beginning of the program. Theoretically, by firing just two warheads per MX silo, the Soviets could destroy the entire arsenal, taking out up to 1,000 U.S. warheads. The same attack could score less than a third as many "kills" against the Minutemen, since they are armed with a maximum of only three warheads. Thus, charge MX critics, by dangling a more threatening target in front of Soviet military strategists, yet failing...