Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTONIANS are normally proud of their city, eager to brag about their clean streets, beautiful monuments and low unemployment. But ask them about their local politics, and they will run and hide behind the Lincoln Memorial...
...more to Michael Jordan than just his home state or alma mater. In Chicago he is unable to attend his local Methodist church because of the commotion his presence creates. "But in Carolina I feel at ease. My real friends keep me straight -- they don't praise me or ask favors." With characteristic modesty, he adds, "I would probably be unreasonable without my friends and family to keep me in balance...
Building a trustworthy bridge between civilized society and the Grand Guignol is tricky work, and Oates' success has varied from book to book. But American Appetites offers a thoroughly credible version of what is both unbelievable and disturbingly familiar. Her prose is headlong. There are cliches; sentences do not ask to be examined for artful felicities. Pausing seems beside the point. The rush is utterly convincing. Any definition of art that excludes this novel is probably too narrow...
...make her understand? Harvard is not comparable to other schools. We live differently, get treated differently and think differently. When people ask us what's so great about Harvard, we shoot back things like "Normal Mailer" and "Henry Kissinger...
...Karen, you're not eating," says the concerned mother to her undernourished daughter. An edgy family discussion ensues over dinner. "You look too thin, if you ask me," says Mom. "Mother," replies Karen Carpenter, "how can anybody be too thin...