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McCarthy was a gifted minor writer with a penetrating mind and, for all her coldness, considerable charm. She had the treacherous habit of putting real people (friends, enemies, ex-husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion to tell the truth could also be an instrument of vicious distortion. The technique proved lucrative with The Group, her best-selling 1963 novel of her classmates at Vassar and their subsequent lives...
...scope of the bread and snack cake shortage has expanded to include New York City, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Cleveland, Turkewitz said...
...remarks invite puzzled looks-- "ONION," "Long live chocolate chip cookies!" and the oh-so political "No comment." Others invoke giggles--"Yowzah!" and "Much nicer than Nixon's old room at Whittier." Sensing conspiracy, Vicki Hunter pens, "The truth is out there." Dan Rather of CBS News, however, takes the cake, as he ponders the deeper philosophical quandaries of our time: "Kenneth--What IS the frequency...
...they fortify the e-commerce Bastille to fight off the onslaught of Internet-propagated Anglophones, we look on with amused disbelief. "Let them say 'start-up'" is a much less contemptuous call to arms than "let them eat cake" ever...
Last month, he knocked on the door of a suite that was hosting a birthday party and invited himself in. He had a piece of cake, surveyed the scene of soda and chips, and said good night...