Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picked cotton with holes in their shoes," he says. "My grandmother worked for rich white people. Our hand-me-downs were good hand-me-downs!" Though Kelly's grandmother was a cook, his mother was a home economics teacher with a master's degree, his father, a fishmonger, insurance agent and cabdriver...
...with The World According to Garp. Maybe, but Toronto turned out to be the perfect place. There one can be away but not away, close to home but not at home. The clean, well-lighted city on Lake Ontario is also where Irving, 47, met his second wife, literary agent Janet Turnbull. Irving and Turnbull were married in 1987, and maintain an apartment in Toronto's Forest Hill section. The author spends about a week each month north of the border, where there is no lack of literary companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends...
...Jonathan Valin or Michael Allegretto. These less heralded figures often produce a prose more intense and flavorful, a sense of scene more convincing and a story more tightly wound yet believable than the brand-name superstars. And occasionally an outright newcomer, not hardened thus far by his agent's insistent counsel to repeat what worked before, will come up with a tale that delights by being absolutely original...
...updated version of the TV show Mission: Impossible, special agent Jim Phelps no longer gets his top-secret instructions by merely opening an envelope and listening to a tape recorder. These days Phelps puts his right thumb on the special pad of a black box that, after reading his thumbprint, promptly pops open and gives a laser-disc video presentation of his next assignment. No one but Phelps can open the box because no one else has his thumbprint...
...average day in Peru, six people die by political violence. One day it is a government agent organizing peasant cooperatives. One day it is a ruling- party mayor. One day it is a government-aligned journalist. Most days it is peasants...