Word: foreshadows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Rabbit is so intrinsically a part of his time that its tagedies soon become his tragedies. As the common "older man" of the eighties buying into the Reagan dream, Rabbit is in less control than ever. Current events foreshadow his own vicissitudes in a Joycean way: the Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie, Scotland happens right before Rabbit's first heart attack; and as Hurricane Hugo kicks into South Carolina, Rabbit has his second, and final, attack. When the eighties inevitably crash, Rabbit and his family tumble with them...
...addition to providing innovative scholarship, the five-year-old joint project may also foreshadow future collaborative efforts between scholars of the two nations...