Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose brother and sister are also artists, grew up in Lexington, Mass. His sister is a ceramicist, and his younger brother is a preparator for the Smith College Museum of Art. His older brother is an officer in the Air Force and is "as old as Ollie North," Tom says...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 1980. My oldest brother was letting off a steady stream of terse French phrases while walking through the Iron Market. He used stock phrases, usually ending up with "Tu n'en as pas besoin" (You don't need it) to a beggar or "Je n'en ai pas besoin" (I don't need it) to a street vendor...
...wondered how my brother, a good liberal ideologue, could have hardened himself so drastically...
Ambroise, whose brother and pregnant sister-in-law were tortured to death at Francois Duvalier's orders in 1965, believes that the council will nonetheless be able to run a respectable contest. "We are going to have this election right in the belly of the beast," he says. Many Haitians, however, feel that Ambroise's optimism is misguided, and some have suggested boycotting the elections. To prevent that, several popular coalitions recommended a reform of the provisional regime, including the possible resignation of General Williams Regala, the least popular member of the three-man government...
With the publication of his first novel in 1984, McInerney became the big brother of what Editor and Critic Ted Solotaroff calls the life-style fiction of the '80s. Bright Lights has sold 300,000 copies; it was hailed as the modern Catcher in the Rye, has been filmed with Michael J. Fox and Phoebe Cates, and is a bit of instant folklore in the book industry. Published as a paperback original by Random House's Vintage Contemporaries series, McInerney's romp gave readers a fast look at a young man's entry-level Manhattan. Bright Lights also...