Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this is the age of the really cute guy, and James Woods is a really scary guy, as he shows in his portrayal of lawyer Eddie Dodd in True Believer. At the start of the film he sticks his face into a jury box and yells. It is a demonic face, hollowed out by unfathomable passions, the eyes agleam with an anger that may be authentic, or may be faked for persuasive purposes. Or maybe its roots are in something that happened to Eddie in kindergarten. Who knows...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where she grew up, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
...that readers may reach us more quickly, we've joined the fax age; the number is (212) 522-0907. Meanwhile, there's always a bag of letters delivered the conventional way for Chase and Rutherford to peruse. "We have just run stories on three subjects that always generate mail: abortion, capital punishment and gun control," says Chase. "We're going to be swamped...
...Philip Roth said that we live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless before what he knows he will read in tomorrow's newspaper. And it's true! No one can dream up the things that pop up in the papers every...
...firm in about 15 minutes. I thought, "Well, this is fiction. I'll go ahead and do it." My typewriter had hardly stopped moving before I picked up the New York Times, and there on Page One was an account of a young investment banker, about the same age as my character, 38, who lost $250 million for his firm in a week. I felt like Alice in Wonderland, running as hard as I can to stay in the same place...