Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Natural Born Killers restore lost scenes; boxed sets of just about any recording artist you can think of--Why not the Zombies?--disgorge hours of studio outtakes. These have also been boom times for posthumous publication, with recent "new" work by Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Mitchell; next year Ernest Hemingway will give us his fourth book as a dead person. Publisher Charles Scribner 3rd says Hemingway fully intended these manuscripts to see the light of day, but cautions other authors that if they don't want work published, they had best destroy it themselves...
Saints aspire to simplicity. On the other hand, writers who drink too much sometimes like to think of themselves as complicated. "The most complicated subject that I know, since I am a man," wrote Ernest Hemingway, "is a man's life"--meaning that the most complicated subject he knew was himself. Complexity is a sort of macho/metaphysical burden. But maybe the smokescreen of the "complicated" is also the beginning of the storyteller's art. ("Bill! Bill Faulkner, where have you been for the last three days?" "It's a complicated story, dear...
...stories, a novel, a short-story collection, and his latest, a travelogue/ memoir called A Pirate Looks at Fifty) that last month Buffett became one of only six writers to reach the No. 1 spot on both the New York Times' fiction and nonfiction best-seller lists. (The others: Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Styron, Irving Wallace and Dr. Seuss.) Buffett, quoting one of his early songs, says he is still "tryin' to figure out how I ever got here...
...Arab-Israeli war 6 days Cher/Gregg Allman marriage 9 days Average space-shuttle flight 10 days Oxenberg/Evans marriage 12 days Barneys New York annual warehouse sale 12 days Shelf life of a professional pedicure 20 days Writing of On the Road 21 days Noncontested Tour de France 21 days Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman marriage 32 days Life-span of a fruit fly 70 days...
...Time, Ernest Hemingway