Word: hauntedness
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With her third novel, McDermott secures her reputation as a mesmerizing and innovative storyteller. In the haunted world that she conjures, dead relatives command greater attention than the living. It is a measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her...
THE CORONERS IN BRAZIL WHO EXAMINED THE EXhumed body of a drowning victim in 1985 were almost certain that they were looking at Josef Mengele, the "Angel of Death" who is said to have whistled opera while selecting which Jews would perish in the gas chambers of Auschwitz--and who...
Clinton's training and education prescriptions clearly have the edge. To make his ambitious programs work, however, he would have to avoid pitfalls that have haunted the Federal Government's job-training efforts since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Such problems range from runaway costs to the difficulty of predicting...
In many newsrooms, the matter would have ended there. But a few Times staff members, notably city editor David Boardman, were haunted by the idea that a U.S. Senator renowned for his liberal posture on women's issues might be abusive in his personal life. Several times, the editors revived...
Haunted by such bitter memories, Mcerwa rejects the conciliatory approach of Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. "We want total liberation, not cosmetic changes," he explains. "It may take some bloodshed. We may go into a civil-war struggle. But quick-fix solutions won't work. As Steve Biko said...