Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confuse the author with his characters. He is a gifted man with anti-elitist sympathies. Like some fairly big names in innovative fiction, including Flaubert, Joyce and Faulkner, Pynchon writes about people who would not be able to read the books in which they appear. As a contemporary bonus, Pynchon's folks would not even be interested in trying. That is part of the sadness and the hilarity of this exhilarating novel...
...Professional athletes will return to action, but not for their pro teams. Michael Jordan and Patrick Ewing, for instance, will lead the United States to the gold at the Olympics in Paris, France. Todd Marinovich will win the Heisman Trophy, earning a $50,000 bonus from USC. "I'm at USC for the education," Marinovich will claim, earning chuckles from the Downtown Athletic Club paparazzi. Nike will release a Bo Knows Boxing spot. Adidas will counter with a Tyson Can Beat the Hell...
...Operation Just Cause quickly removed Noriega from power and gave a new government a chance to take root. As a bonus, it recovered some 48,000 weapons that might one day have been turned against Americans or sent off to El Salvador as part of Noriega's gun running to rebels there. In Panama, American . servicemen fully earned the kind of medals that were so lavishly dispensed after Grenada...