Word: easton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known as the most expensive school in the country, the rural refuge for rich flakes. But these days, the Vermont college also seems to be the place to go if you want to graduate a published writer. Just two years ago, while he was still a Bennington junior, Bret Easton Ellis hit the bestseller list with Less Than Zero, an up-in-coke account of Los Angeles life. The book was recently followed by The Rules of Attraction, a bright-lights-big-campus story about life at a small liberal arts school...
...yuppie market, hot new writers like Tama Janowitz and Bret Easton Ellis are packaged and hyped as fashionable commodities...
...fast-track careers of Novelists Jay McInerney, 31, and Bret Easton Ellis, 23, have intriguing parallels. McInerney's 1984 best-selling fictional debut, Bright Lights, Big City, chronicled the downward spiral of an unnamed young writer who delves into New York City's nightclub netherworld with the help of his fast-talking best friend, Tad Allagash. Next year Ellis' Less than Zero caused a publishing sensation with its stark portrayal of sybaritic youth in suburban Los Angeles. Both writers' books are currently being made into major motion pictures. And both writers are slated to come out with new novels within...
...appropriate; one to cover the opening of the Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy and one to report on the excellent debate by three experts on the media and government. The Crimson, once again, reinforced on dubious Harvard tradition--preoccupation with glitz and glitter rather than substance. Scott Easton...
...could be a step forwards if theadministration involves us in the decisionprocess. I think Dean [of the College L. Fred]Jewett ['57] is sincere," Easton added...