Word: bloodedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"He was a red-blooded American boy," Pokorney says. "He mixed real well with everybody and could cross lines with various kids. He was very well liked."
Kennedy, the Faulkner of upstate New York, again draws inspiration from Albany, the hometown he once described as an "improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels." The aforementioned now rub elbows and knock heads in a novel that once more demonstrates the author...
BOOKS . . . THE FLAMING CORSAGE: The Faulkner of upstate New York, William Kennedy again draws inspiration from of Albany in his new novel, 'The Flaming Corsage' (Viking; 209 pages; $23.95). Kennedy once described his hometown as an 'improbable city of political wizards, fearless ethnics, spectacular aristocrats, splendid nobodies, and underrated scoundrels...
Recently, however, the Clinton administration has been affecting rapproachment with Cuba through various diplomatic channels. The cold-blooded, premeditated murder of four Cuban-American exiles flying over international waters, less than one year after the sinking of the 13th of July tugboat--which killed 41 men, women and children--should...
To his audience this night, he paints a picture of a Norman Rockwell America that never existed for most of them. "My father worked for the same company for 50 years," he says. "We lived in the same neighborhood." It is that ethnic Washington neighborhood that Pat describes in his...