Word: labyrinth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Declining to be led into this labyrinth of suspicion, I nonetheless asked the Canadian buff what had become of the Name's life after he fled Dallas. It seems he couldn't really escape -- Nov. 22 continued to haunt him. The FBI followed him to Michigan and questioned him repeatedly; he had to go back to Dallas for Ruby's trial; he never found the wife he'd lost. And then in the early '80s, just when his life seemed to have settled down, renewed interest in the J.F.K. case made his name an object of speculation again: it appeared...
...They help us along the road because the material might be in some sense dry and arcane to many people. Each actor has a little riddle or an obstacle for Garrison, who has to work his way around it to move farther into the heart of the labyrinth, where the Cretan Minotaur lives...
However, as one walks the labyrinth of streets within the shantytowns, another reality unfolds. Penalolen's shantytowns teem with their own choice life...
...four quarters of Jerusalem's old city: the Christian, the Muslim, the Jewish and the Armenian. "Be bold, but not too bold," a professor of mine had told me. With his advice in mind I spent the first few hours of every morning trekking above and through the labyrinth-like quarters of the old city...
...General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America, are imaginatively reconstructed by the acknowledged master of magic realism. As the general flees from his progressive illness and ungrateful people, he trails, in his turbulent wake, a hyperactive tale of grandeur and disillusionment...