Word: encounterer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Imagine his surprise when he arrives at her room for a more intimate encounter and finds her on the angry prowl, telephone in one hand, cigarette in the other, barking brisk, not to say obscene, instructions to her agent. Why, says Michael, you're two people. "If all I could...
That encounter, which leads to brutal police beatings for both, takes place in 1970. Fifteen years later, the men meet again, this time at a diplomatic session between the same country's newly installed left-wing dictatorship and an international human rights group. The visitors are pleading for the release...
Meet John Ackah Blay-Miezah, native of Ghana, man of the world, a portly, elegant, globe-trotting charmer who seems to awe those who encounter him. "A very intelligent, cultured man," gushed one American admirer. "He knows every opera and can recognize a symphony from just a couple of notes...
You Never Can Tell can be thought of as a nightmare version of the Brady Bunch: what happens when a famous author and her three children encounter the husband she left 18 years earlier. Throw in the one of the daughter's complicated courtship by a penniless dentist, and you...
Searching the Union for an empty seat and a familiar face, I spotted Chris, an entrymate, chatting with someone I didn't recognize. Setting my tray down, I said hello to Chris, and joined their conversation. John was a stranger to Chris, too. He had just sat down, out-going...