Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead of a twelve-year-old growing up on a marshy island off the South Carolina coast, the hero-narrator this time is a graduate student working toward his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in Tennessee. His first name seems to be Al, and the subject of his jottings, which make up this book, is the remarkable change he experiences after receiving a letter from his girlfriend of six years, who is doing postdoctoral work in Norway, "letting me know in the subtlest, happiest way imaginable that I would not be joining her there as we had planned upon completion...
...Woman Named Drown. In fact, this performance has given her the urge to get away for a while; after playing a woman accused of sleeping with a black, Mary thinks some of her Knoxville neighbors have started to harbor the same suspicion about her. Before long, Mary gives Al all of her late husband Stump's golfing togs, packs him into her Mercury and takes off for Florida...
Passion plays in the afternoon. Take your cue from the soaps. The rule here is no guts, no glory. "Our characters," says Al Rabin, supervising executive producer of Days of Our Lives, "have to have the ability to wear their feelings on their sleeve. Don't be shy, show what's in your...
...smiled. "Well, Al Haig's running for president," I said. "Which is pretty exciting. With any luck we may see a return of Manifest Destiny...
...Al Vellucci has a long record of showing up CCA hypocrisy and prevents the independents from selling the city to the highest bidder," Truesdell said...