Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciate it." Adds Novelist Georges Perec: "We reject the noble image of literature as a divine inspiration. In our view, language is a kind of putty that we can shape." Among the stranger shapes issuing from the OuLiPo factory are palindromes-words or statements that read identically backward and forward. "Straw? No, too stupid a fad. I put soot on warts," is elementary to an OuLiPo member. Perec has produced Ou LiPo's longest palindrome: a 5,000-letter treatise-on palindromes. Other OuLiPoian inventions are equally astonishing. Poet Jean Lescure's N (or V) +7 formula takes...
...merely respecting her but more than a little in love with her. As he looks around for clues to the munitions robbery and extortion plot that are his major concern, Harry shows a gift for talking to militant blacks, if only because they respect his rough, straight-forward machismo. Indeed, it turns out that while the entire liberal establishment believes the robbery is the work of political extremists. Harry, your wise street pro, knows the criminals are using revolutionary rhetoric merely to cover their tracks. In the end, the crooks snatch the mayor, and Harry and his partner snatch...
...feel too sorry for the Larries, who, a long road trip finally behind them, can once again look forward to wild nights at Scivvy's, the Hoot Owl and the Inside Track on the other side of an eight-hour trek back to Canton...
There is one memory left to start the story forward and work down to Jimmy, who seems a tad still in that ongoing stream. Mr. Alton Carter, age 88, is Jimmy's dead father's elder brother. A short, gentle-voiced man, he haunts his son Hugh's antiques store on Main Street, meeting all with old-fashioned manners and a memory that runs back, clear and voluminous, to the early '90s, well before his mother Nina moved here to Plains with him, his three sisters and his brother James Earl. For with all his tendrils...
...agencies. Such funding could enable the World and Inter-American Development banks to ease the burden of recession-generated debt that now erodes up to 40% of export earnings of some Latin American na tions. Says Linowitz: "We're focusing on how to permit these people to go forward without being strangled by their heavy obligations." The commission report also condones two urgent Latin-American demands: lower U.S. tariff barriers to Latin exports and plans for stabilizing commodity prices...