Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Raised in a cold climate? Yes, Minnesota Yes, British Columbia...
...published one book set in a juvenile-detention facility (Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree) and another in which a 13-year-old sleeps with her mother's boss (Brock Cole's The Facts Speak for Themselves). They were followed by Melvin Burgess's even more graphic Smack, a British novel imported by Henry Holt, which details a middle-class 15-year-old's descent into the world of heroin addiction and prostitution...
...determined eye is cast at his brother-in-law's pretty French fiance), a good father to his numerous brood, yet sometimes abrupt and heedless of them. He's a stormy character, all right, but an unfocused one, and this well-cast adaptation of a memoir by a British TV executive is disjointed, only queasily humorous and too casual about its dark undercurrents...
Runner ROGER BANNISTER, 25, British...
Cruise companies were among the first to target the millennium crowd, and some trips have been booked for two years, reports Ian Buckeridge, editor of a magazine published by the British tour operator Cruise Line. Prices are 15% to 20% above last year's. His company touts the Silver Seas line, which has two millennium excursions around Tahiti in the $25,000 price range. Thanks to the international date line, the South Seas will be awash in ships. "Because," says Buckeridge, "in theory you can get in three different New Years." Date-line dodging presumably offers insurance against a disappointing...