Word: alex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young-writer circles by Jill Eisenstadt, Bennington class of '85 whose new novel Far Rockaway is getting the big push from publisher Alfred A. Knopf. Eisenstadt's book tells of the drinking and drowning bouts of lifeguards in "Rotaway," a seedy New York beach, and specifically of Alex, who escapes the sand and sea when she gets a scholarship from a New England college...
LOWENSTEIN lifts a good deal of his material from Alex Cox's classic depiction of punk life, Sid and Nancy, including a fantasy sequence that Cox could sue him for if scenes were copyrighted. He needn't bother, however, since Lowenstein never even approaches the level of intelligence and cohesiveness that made Cox's movie so compelling. Lowenstein doesn't understand that the way to portray chaos and boredom is not to be chaotic and boring...
Physicists Georg Bednorz of West Germany, and K. Alex Mueller of Switzerland were named Nobel Laureates for discoveries in superconductivity...
...coming here to be educated, and that depends on how well professors teach, not on their ability to develop theorems," Alex V. Edelstein '91 said...
...like the dead people." So writes Actress Suzanne Vale, 29, whose diary of her 30 days in a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation clinic forms the strongest part of this feisty, refreshing first novel. Suzanne's journal is counterpoint to the strident monologue of a fellow patient, Alex Daniels, also 29, who bottomed out at a Ramada Inn on a half-ounce of cocaine, six Long Island iced teas, two Smirnoffs, a hamburger, French fries and cake...