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...know I definitely want to go to Harvard. It's the ultimate university," says Laszlo Nagy. "I know you have to be super ultra-smart to go here but I get pretty good grades and plus I'm a faculty brat--that might help...
...brother exchange a "rootless life of impermanence and safety" for the urban wilderness of conformity and cliques. The boy, a prodigy, retreats into a private world of abstruse science and physics. Elaine seeks acceptance by her peers, a gaggle of victimizing girls led by a meanspirited brat named Cordelia. Atwood understands that no subsequent humiliations can ever cut so deep as those of youth. The cruelties done to the narrator become sources of a melancholia that affects the rest of her days...
Danny is the best of both parents: gifted, generous, fiercely loyal. Growing up fugitive, he has acquired the cagey independence of an Army brat. He knows enough to stay home from school the day of the class picture. A sixth sense of self-protection tells him when someone has entered the room behind him. By nature gregarious, he must keep the truth about his family guarded from those who would be his pals. But Danny is, after all, a teenager. He has a girlfriend (Martha Plimpton) now, and a secret that is aching to burst from him like young lust...
MOVE OVER, BRAT PACK, HERE COMES THE BOONE BUNCH...
...Lowe goes to Washington. The Democratic National Committee was baby sitter to a contingent of Brat Packers and other Hollywood luminaries: Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson, Justine Bateman, Ed Begley Jr., Ed Asner, Morgan Fairchild and the ubiquitous Rob Lowe half disguised by scholarly-looking glasses. Their cicerone in Atlanta was Tom Hayden, who escorted them to seminars and around the convention floor. While on the floor one day, Fairchild spied Joe Kennedy Jr. Unable to get his attention, she accidentally on purpose bumped into him, then apologized with histrionic surprise, "Excuse...