Word: condon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those smarmy coinages, like "brunch," that make a self-respecting user of language want to wash his mouth out with whisky. Brunch can be avoided by not getting out of bed before noon on Sundays, but prequel -- ptui! -- probably is inevitable for works such as Richard Condon's rowdy new novel, a report on the formative years of the author's lovable but dumb Mafia assassin Charley Partanna...
...youth while she sits in a hotel bar waiting for the right man to come along: "She could see the stairs, where sooner or later the chap would appear. He'd buy a drink and then he'd look around and there she'd be." In Music, Justin Condon, a traveling salesman of women's underwear, sustains himself with the vision of being a romantic composer. Yet these characters do not come across as failures. Trevor makes the yearnings of ordinary people seem as significant as the accomplishments of the exceptional...
...doing all the things the schools would do if they could afford it," says Paula Singer, a vice president at Reading Game. Public school people agree. "There's no way public schools can match the attention given to just three students at a time," says Joseph Condon, assistant superintendent of the Ocean View school district in Huntington Beach, Calif., where Reading Game has its headquarters. "I don't hesitate to refer parents to Reading Game...
John Huston has done some wonderful directing of Richard Condon's script, but try as the famed director may, he cannot overcome an overly tangled plot. Condon's two-hour-and-15-minute screenplay confuses everybody until the end, when Condon simplifies matters only by killing most of the cast...
...Wiley had to look pretty far back to see anyone who wasn't a teammate. Brown's first finisher, Sarah Condon, took seventh in 19:04.8. She was proceeded by Crimson freshman Kristin Perini (18:18.2) in third, Leslie Cooper (18:55.4), Kathy Good (19:00.2) and Diana Edge...