Word: whats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THINK, Mr. Carswell (wherever you are), think, all of you: imagine the situation of your grader. (Unless, of course he is of the Wheatstone Bridgedouble differential CH3C6H2 (NO2)3 set. These people are mere cogs; automata; they simply feel to make sure you have punched the right holes. As they...
The spot is a perfect refuge for a remnant of wilting flower children, including Zoyd Wheeler, a part-time keyboard player, handyman and marijuana farmer. Along with his teenage daughter Prairie, Zoyd still mourns the departure and later disappearance of his ex-wife Frenesi, a onetime '60s radical who was...
These details establish the absolutely typical Pynchon plot. An evil, well- organized and immensely powerful enemy sows "the merciless spores of paranoia" among a shaggy, lost group of drifting souls who find the real world threatening under the best of circumstances. The intended victims, not all of whom think too...
Facing U.S. drug charges, the deposed Panamanian leader could raise embarrassing questions: What did the President know, and when did he know it? -- How a wily papal nuncio in Panama City outwitted an unwelcome guest. -- A baffling shift in a murder case stirs racial tension in Boston.
But Eyes II stands out also for the intelligent, graceful way all this material has been assembled. Each episode has an organizing theme (the movement goes north; the emergence of black pride) and a dramatic arc that builds toward climactic episodes marking key milestones. What makes the series most satisfying...