Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme to sell towers stocked with insect-eating bats to the gullible public. In 1973 McGuane upped the ante with Ninety-Two in the Shade, a dazzling novel of free- floating angst and male brinkmanship set in the Florida Keys. Ninety-Two was nominated for a National Book Award, and McGuane became, in the words of ^ Saul Bellow, "a kind of language star." Critics compared the 34-year-old author to Faulkner, Hemingway, Chekov and Camus. The big time -- and Tinseltown -- beckoned. McGuane became a celluloid hotshot, penning scripts for Rancho Deluxe and Tom Horn among other movies. In exchange...
Harvard also announced its annual award-winners at last week's banquet, where Derek Mills, Jamie Reilly and Andrew Goldfarb garnered honors...
...said that he was delighted to win the award, even thought he was not very familiar with...
...only thing I knew about the award was that Isaiah Berlin received it two years ago," Sen said, referring to a retired Oxford University professor...
Goal of the Week: Not taking dramatics into account (Mike Vukonich's last-second goal would take the honor, hands down), this week's award goes to Tim Burke for his "I-can't-believe-that-was-a-goal" goal in the second period...