Word: angela
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Delusions about sinister aircraft are among the milder symptoms of the Billings area's mounting crank plague. East on Interstate 90, in the town of Livingston, the body of a young woman, Angela Brown, was found rotting in a river, and local law-enforcement officials are investigating a Billings meth connection. A few months earlier, south of Billings, in Hardin, an admittedly cranked-out 17-year-old, Jonathan Wayne Vandersloot, whose head hadn't touched a pillow in days, allegedly shot dead his sleeping grandparents, scooped up some jewelry, guns and cash, and took off in their pickup. Vandersloot...
Anyone want to buy a memoir by a guy named McCourt? Silly question. Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, a haunting account of his impoverished childhood in Limerick, Ireland, has been translated into 19 languages, including Turkish and Croatian, and has sold 4 million copies worldwide. The book has spent 90 weeks at or near the top of the New York Times Book Review best-seller list and earned its author, 67, a clutch of awards, including the Pulitzer Prize...
...since Frank's reputation is being used to lure prospective customers to Malachy's book, a perhaps churlish caveat emptor seems in order: A Monk Swimming is no Angela's Ashes. In fairness to Malachy, he never pretends to be writing anything remotely resembling his elder brother's book. But what he thinks he is doing instead on his pages never becomes particularly clear...
Although he occasionally flashes back to the Limerick life portrayed in Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit and raconteur, became an off-Broadway actor, appeared with Jack Paar on the Tonight show, tended bar as part owner of an East Side joint named Malachy's and later, down on his luck, smuggled gold ingots strapped about his portly person into India...
...Angela Davis, author of Blues Legacies and Black Feminism