Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does real life most of the time, but unless Erdrich is herding her large cast toward a fifth novel that will pull things together, the reader is entitled to a bit of head scratching. Over most of its course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing...
...more to him, but not quite enough. Kreer's decline begins when his mother changes her will, leaving him about half what he expected. Suddenly he finds himself no longer competent to deal with petty parochial rifts. Before long he is besotted with a pretty young hippie, and the affair becomes public...
...might call the affair Wounded Knee, if that name weren't already taken by some trifling affair involving the loss of several human lives. But the Kerrigan-Harding incident has proven that the American press and public, their thirst for blood slaked on the ubiquitous undercurrent of random violence, have decided that mere carnage is not sufficient qualification for an enduring spot in the news and popular imagination...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals presents the annual awards to the two performers who have made a "lasting and impressive contribution to the world of entertainment," said Catherine W. Zipf '94, co-producer of the Pudding's 146th annual production, "A Forum Affair...
...Pudding will present Cruise with his "Pudding Pot" at the premiere of "A Forum "Affair," on February 22 at the Pudding Theatre...