Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bennington. The pair have appeared on the Today show together, share a mentor (author Joe McGinnis) and both have set their novels in the imaginary campus of Camden (read: Bennington). But Eisenstadt resents the unavoidable comparisons between their work. "It's annoying because I don't think it's fair to either of the books, although I do like the guy a lot," she says of Ellis, while sitting and sipping water in her publisher's New York office, "We both decided independently to write books about a college like Bennington, but his vision of it is a lot different...
...very favorable to either. Vogue Magazine suggested that the only people who should be reading the two books are parents of Bennington students, because "within ten minutes of finishing either, you will be on your way up to Vermont to pull your kid out." And in Vanity Fair, James Wolcott wrote an almost scholarly piece on the chroniclers of the young and wasted, pronouncing them "too numb to feel, to cool to care...Current fiction is festooned with their razor cuts and insignia. Listen closely and the lite-FM melodies of Ann Beattie snarl into a more hostile noise...
...social butterfly, refused. She, unwilling to take no for an answer, simply went to the offices of his main magazine, Vogue, sat down at an unoccupied desk and announced that she was ready to start work writing captions. Within four years she was managing editor of Nast's Vanity Fair, a magazine that she shaped in her own smart and irreverent image, at once reveling in the emperor's latest fashions and revealing them for what they really were...
...bond with ordinary voters by proclaiming himself the "only farmer in the race." He tells stories about raising Angus cattle since he was six on his father's 250-acre farm in Carthage, Tenn.; he showed one of his heifers and won a blue ribbon at the Iowa State Fair. But he quickly adds that anyone who shakes hands with him will notice the absence of calluses: "I haven't been spending much time on tractors of late...
...opinion, [the hearing] is a smokescreen," said Tufford. He said he thought the terms of the agreement were fair...