Word: intentness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Firestarter is the story of a young girl who's born with the power to start fires at will (as a result of a group drug experiment in which her parents participated) and her father (the mother has been murdered), both on the run from pursuing government thugs intent on annihilating them. The first 250 pages are engrossing and entertaining, but then the fantasy that King has concocted falls flat, the spell he's cast is broken, and the reader is left with a runaway novel that leads to a stale, purposeless conclusion. King's recent books (The Dead Zone...
...Frederick Treves, the doctor who recorded Merrick's case, was not saintly; and the other freaks did not free Merrick from the sideshow. These deviations from fact would not be particularly important if the movie did not wear its supposed authenticity like a shield, daring people to criticize its intent...
...Democrats' tattered majority will be a meager bulwark against a Republican Administration and a Republican-controlled Senate that probably will be intent on dismantling major elements of the social legislation passed during the Democrats' nearly half-century of dominance in both the House and Senate. In addition, the Democratic majority has turned more conservative. Most of the Republican newcomers are on their party's right wing, and most of the Democrats who survived did so only by shifting during the campaign away from the Big Government liberalism that was clearly in disfavor on Election Day. Indeed...
...yesterday disagreed. "Manipulation has nothing to do with it," he said, adding, "There had been a failure of communication in the negotiations, and I felt I had to tell CHUL that the situation had turned out differently than I expected. It is important to distinguish between confusion and some intent to manipulate...
Hiatt said he expects attempts to modify the proposition. "If they are in the intersts of the bill, I'm sure a compromise can be worked out, but if they are attempts to frustrate its basic intent, the legislature will have to reckon with us and the voters," he said...