Word: familiarizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LUCK CLUB by Amy Tan (Putnam; $18.95). A bright, sharp-flavored first novel on growing up ethnic in the U.S. The topic sounds familiar, but the Chinese spice added to this old recipe is invigorating and refreshingly true...
...what happens next. A Prayer for Owen Meany takes a somewhat different approach. Framed by the myth of victim as redeemer, the book removes guesswork without reducing expectations. One knows going in that the mischievous author is staging a kind of "Gospel According to Charlie Brown." But anyone familiar with Irving's mastery of narrative technique, his dark humor and moral resolve also knows his fiction is cute like...
...likely to become a familiar sight on U.S. runways. Fokker is negotiating with United Airlines for the sale of as many as 200 planes, and with Delta for 100. Says Fokker's Swarttouw, 56, who plans to retire soon: "We have secured a future for Fokker of 15 to 20 years...
...mirror, Tom's eyes flick nervously toward Henderson, seeking rescue. She has plucked him out of the familiar styles he settled on back when a pair of Weejuns cost $20, and he is lost among the choices. The first sweater he bought with Henderson's help struck him as so ugly, so splotched with color, that he left it hanging in his room for a week. But people loved it, people who'd never looked at him twice, except in dismay. So he is meekly agreeable when Henderson puts him in a midnight blue Giorgio Armani suit with tone...
...fate of SAIS Cahuide has become a familiar tale in Peru, which is reeling from the double punch of guerrilla insurgency and economic stagflation. The confluence of crises has brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy and shaken the nation's institutional foundations. While a military coup does not appear imminent, the basic conditions for civilian democracy are ! eroding at an alarming rate. Approximately 150,000 Peruvians emigrated last year. Rural families who lack the money to leave have migrated to urban centers, straining city budgets and turning the pueblos jovenes, or shantytowns, into breeding grounds for subversion...