Word: boringness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kingston's prose imitates--almost mocks--an era and its writers, but she does not attempt to recreate their style. Hers is the San Francisco of the 1960s, city of foghorns and Jack Kerouac, and Tripmaster Monkey maps the crossroads of countries and characters. The Chinese-Americans of her earlier...
"Stealth Mayor" Bradley keeps a low enough profile not to be associated with the city's problems. Unlike New York City's Mayor Ed Koch, who blurts out insults to someone nearly every day, the resolutely dull Bradley has said hardly anything memorable in almost 16 years in office. But...
What happened to those glorious days of yesteryear, when California produced Red-baiting Richard Nixon, tap-dancing George Murphy, and the diminutive, tam- o'-shanter-wearing S.I. Hayakawa, who said of the Panama Canal, "We should keep it; we stole it fair and square"? Or, for that matter, the Gipper...
But politics can become only so boring before it ceases to exist at all. Last week Los Angeles held an election and almost no one came -- only 23% of the voters turned out. Bradley does not need charisma to attract money; the bankers and developers in Los Angeles have wallets...
At suburban Ohio's Westerburg High, a quartet of teen princesses runs the school. They are called the Heathers, because three of the four are named Heather. The fourth, Veronica (Winona Ryder, pallid of face and sharp as Cheddar), is at first pleased to be accepted by this "bunch of...