Word: ditto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most overhyped oenological event of the year. In 1989, however, the arrival of Beaujolais Nouveau -- the early fermented version of France's most popular red bistro wine -- is something to celebrate. Tart and short- lived in off-vintages, this year's Nouveau is fresh (as it should be), fruity (ditto) and surprisingly well rounded -- the best wine they have made, growers say, since 1985. Nouveau's good structure bodes well for the quality of the longer-lasting (five years or more), higher-priced Beaujolaises bearing such village names as Brouilly, Chenas, Julienas and Morgon, which will arrive...
...explore new troves of archival material, particularly at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and has now expanded the text by some 300 pages. Much of the additional material concerns the evil (in Solzhenitsyn's view) activities of Lenin during Russia's hasty entrance into World War I, and the heroic (ditto) career of Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister under Czar Nicholas II who was assassinated in 1911 by an anarchist named Dmitri Bogrov. Translated by Harry T. Willetts, this version is essentially a brand-new work...
Forget it; pigs will fly first. Ditto your other crazy notion, the one about the roller-skating trains. What else...
Three heroines, living in London and in their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps...
...Ditto for "The Unsupervised Infant." Litt's workshop creation, though full of energy and hysterically hyperexagerrated Jewish angst, has a disturbing stream-of-consciousness aura which smacks of rancid Saturday Night Live. And it's silly to boot...