Word: donalds
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...Oscar Hijuelos became the first Hispanic American to win the Pulitzer Prize for his second novel. The Mambo kings Play Songs of Love. Born in New York City to Cuban immigrant parents, Hijuelos attended City College where his memos included Donald Barthelme and Susan Sontag. Hijuelos held a low-level job with a mass transit advertising agency before quitting in 1980, when his first novel, Our House in the Last World, was published. He spoke recently with The Crimson about his new novel. The fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien...
...chances behind the camera, White Hunter, Black Heart proved he was willing to take huge and potentially embarrassing risks as an actor. His portrayal of a film director modeled on John Huston was as removed from the characters his public had come to expect as Orson Welles is from Donald Duck. Like Bird, it was a commercial failure...
Some of the boys' parents seemed unperturbed. At the Belman home, where son Kristopher, 18, had returned after being released from custody, father Donald said, "Nothing my boy did was anything any red-blooded American boy wouldn't do at his age." Billy Shehan's father Billy Sr. offered a historical perspective. "I'm 40. We used to talk about scoring in my high school," he said. "What's the difference?" Son Billy, who was not among those arrested, was irritated only because his folks wouldn't allow him to discuss the controversy on the Jerry Springer show. Beyond that...
There are, to be sure, candidates actively seeking the job from both inside and outside, including interim boss Donald Browne. But few fully meet the criteria privately articulated by NBC's corporate president Robert Wright: experience in news, experience in television and, most important, "high profile." Says one broadcast news veteran whom Wright has consulted: "He has been telling everyone that he'd like most to get Koppel or Moyers. He likes the idea of instant credibility...
...November the gun lobby will try to make good on its promises to punish legislators who have opposed it. After the New Jersey vote, senate president Donald DiFrancesco, a Republican who initially supported repeal of the assault-weapon ban, set up a campaign fund to assist legislative candidates that the NRA had targeted for defeat. To make sure the organization got the message, he made the first contribution himself -- $10,000 that the NRA had contributed to his own campaign fund over the past two years...