Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...establish a Vatican TV station as a means of attracting young people to the church. Rossellini is hired as a public relations aide for the venture, in exchange for eternal salvation. But the plan runs afoul of the Sacred College of Cardinals, the (fictitious) Vatican Secret Police and finally the Lord himself, who wreaks apocalyptic destruction on the TV studio. As staff members are dispatched to their final rewards, the band plays When the Saints Go Marching...
...preference" was the former President. Reports of meetings between Ford and Reagan were aired on the evening news shows. At 7 p.m. Rather went on TV live with the strongest story up to then, saying that Reagan was not going to consider anybody else "until he gets a final, unequivocal, new no from Ford." Rather took pains to note that his sources did not think Ford would accept...
...final book of the tetralogy does, and in the process, insinuates strands of history and myth, philosophy and ribaldry. With a cast of characters that includes Viking Warrior Erik Bloodaxe, Cowboy Star Tom Mix and a deck of World War I Flying Aces, its plot twisted to provide a climactic battle between Clemens and King John, and a final confrontation between Burton and the strange Ethicals who control the Riverworld, The Magic Labyrinth charts a territory somewhere between Gulliver's Travels and The Lord of the Rings. It also raises a few moral questions. Is Göring...
...imagination is certainly of the first rank. And if his prodigious saga falters, it is only after four volumes, when the journey has already provided a library's worth of merriment and insight. "In skating over thin ice," wrote Emerson, "our safety is in our speed." Until the final stretch, Farmer's velocity is breathtaking. -Peter Stoler
Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus. When he failed his final exams, the undergraduate's pride was crushed. At home, his father had run through the modest family fortune, and for a drab and agonizing decade Housman clerked in the London Patent Office...