Word: jaggedness
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Tule Lake as the wartime internees knew it is gone. Only vestiges survive. To the west, there is Castle Rock, a jagged mountain of sand and stone upon whose crest is a cross, a more permanent version of the one Japanese Christians had placed there Easter morning 1943. But the...
Richard, in fact, is well past jagged recollections of Meg's ominous girlhood and into an account of her relapse-which brings a return to the asylum-before the reader, by now totally in the grip of the author, really admits that Richard the good may in fact be...
With little room to maneuver or park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty...
Died. Adolph Gottlieb, 70, one of the founders of the abstract expressionist school of painting along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, and Willem de Kooning; after a long illness; in New York City. Rebelling against the social realism that dominated painting in the '40s, Gottlieb created "pictographs"-checkerboard patterns...
THIS IS NOT to say that people, having lost a sure faith in the American system, suddenly start believing that the world is haunted. Rather, they'll believe that it's haunted as much as they'll believe anything else. For what they have lost (and the news from Washington...