Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some kids hang around pool halls," Conner says he hung around the marinas begging rides. At 44 he still likes to refer to sailing as a "good way to hang out." A junior membership was finally extended by the San Diego Yacht Club, and the stout and uncoordinated boy with no real love of the sea began tweaking and fiddling and driving the sport crazy...
...culture. May sets his story against the backdrop of his country's night world, a place of sorcerers and omens, in which dreams of blood mean money on the way and the hooting of an owl portends miscarriage. One day he drops in on a friend to find the boy spouting gibberish while a cross-legged magician tries to exorcise his "evil spirit" with the branch of a star-fruit tree...
...interview didn't take long. The story was the same everywhere: don't sign up if you can't fill the cup. Everyone from the president of IBM to the greasiest fry-boy at McDonalds had their nitrogenous wastes feeding into a pipeline straight to the DEA. Why? There weren't any attempts to justify it. If was simply wrong to do drugs...
...Jewish family in Rockaway, Queens. Among these dreamers by the glowing dial, the most touching and memorable is again a woman, Aunt Bea (played with becoming lack of sentiment by Dianne Wiest). Since this nameless clan lives near Allen's old neighborhood and includes a shy, slender, red-haired boy, the unwary may conclude that Allen is being autobiographical...
...Secretary of the Treasury in a frantic effort to save the international monetary system. It was short on narrative technique but long on expertise. There was no panting sex, and the sharks wore three-piece suits. Yet Erdman, like Bernie Cornfeld, another tarnished golden boy of the period, had a sheaf of raffish publicity behind him, and the novel became a best seller...