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This decidedly offbeat first novel offers a mixed message to all those who might be worried about contemporary teenagers. On the one hand, the example of its author looks hopeful: Bret Easton Ellis, 21, is a student at Bennington College and obviously an enterprising and successful young man. But the story he tells about members of his generation is lurid in the extreme. Most readers who are not helplessly zonked on sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will finish Less Than Zero with the conviction that they have not fretted over the current condition of young people nearly enough...
...Ford Coppola hired the author to write the script for his $45 million movie The Cotton Club; and the public library of Albany, New York State's capital and the author's home town, proclaimed a William Kennedy Day to honor its first native literary star since Bret Harte...
...Bret Saberhagen, 9-10, Joe Beckwith and Dan Quisenberry pitched the Royals' fifth combined shutout of the season, helped by five double plays turned on the Angels...
With several broken plays, fumbles and interceptions, the game wasn't a work of brilliant football art. "We're called Winthrop High, but we're actually pretty mellow," Winthrop coach Bret Schundler said after the game. "Our team really apprecaites the fact that we're playing just...
...Bret Schundler, now the coach at Winthrop, remembers agreeing not to hit his limping foe. "But then the guy decided one play to rush, I had no choice but to block," Schundler said. Not a pretty sight...