Word: bellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 for writing 1976's The Missouri Breaks, which...
...problem that Barker can't--in good conscience--bellow, "And showcase number two is...a luxurious weekend in New Haven...
...Clark said faculty members--led by Gary Singsen, director of the Program on the Legal Profession, and ProfessorGary Bellow, founder of the school's LegalServices Center--will take up the rest of theslack...
...BELLAROSA CONNECTION by Saul Bellow (Penguin; $6.95). The Nobel laureate's second appearance of the year in a paperback original, this absorbing novella once again retails the dislocations -- wrenching, comic or both -- of being Jewish in America...
...Bellow's spokesman happens to be on the scene, at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1959, when Sorella manages to arrange a showdown with her husband's savior. She tells all, of course. Her description of the crucial encounter, both poignant and hilarious, settles nothing except the certainty that Broadway Billy Rose will do anything to avoid receiving an expression of gratitude by Polish immigrant Harry Fonstein...