Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terribly awry. Prosecutor Christopher Darden recently spoke with disdain of "this supposed truth-seeking process." One thing is certain: if Simpson were poor and unknown, it all would have been over months ago. "If O.J. were [represented by a public defender] in Jones County, Mississippi,'' says Robert Spangenberg, co-author of a 1993 American Bar Association report on indigent defense, "it would be a two-day trial, an open-and-shut case.'' Instead, if the bulletins from dismissed jurors can be believed, the Simpson millions have so far succeeded in purchasing a reasonable doubt...
...instant gardens and exotic ones, for status plants and designer landscapes -- converge to boost the catalog business. The largest seed company, Burpee, alone sent out 6 million catalogs this year, up 20% from last year. Novices can buy a book, Gardening by Mail, just to help them shop. Author Barbara Barton guesses that there are between 1,200 and 1,500 catalogs covering just seeds, plants, bulbs, trees and shrubs, plus an additional 1,000 garden-related catalogs with everything from ornaments and greenhouse kits to clothes and tools...
...York Times she was "really, like, 19, you know." So now she's 32-just the right age to date Ethan ("Speaking of Goatees") Hawke, 24. Appropriately, the two were introduced by Richard Linklater, director of Slacker, and were last seen together at a party for Douglas Coupland, author of Generation...
...book was a collection of strong, hard-edged short stories called The Pugilist at Rest. The title was descriptive. Most of the characters were onetime boxers or soldiers, and there was a quality of rest -- of fate and damage accepted -- to the predicaments they described. The stories in the author's second collection, Cold Snap (Little, Brown; 240 pages; $19.95), are at least as powerful and as gritty with existential courage. But they are also rowdier, messier with life...
...author's line of sight has shifted, maybe broadened. A theme that recurs is of white medics in Africa. Heroism here consists of crumbling into alcoholism, drugs and depression as slowly as possible, and with as much grace. Occasional joyousness is real but fragmented. The narrator of the title story is a washed-up doc, fired from his African aid mission and back home in the U.S., who is taking his depressed and institutionalized sister for an outing. They kid around about death and heaven, then veer into cheerfulness: "I'm thinking that I'm gonna be all right...