Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abroad to try out maturity. His destination: Tokyo. Bicycle Days, a first novel by a 24-year-old Harvard graduate, is the wry, rueful story of Alec's efforts to cope with his job at a computer outfit and with a vexing foreign culture. Through his adoptive family, the friendship of an old fisherman and a troubling affair with an older woman, he succeeds in learning some humbling lessons. Of course that means turning west, to face life at home. Like his hero, Schwartz avails himself of no shortcuts. Innocent of slickness or lit-crit smarts, his novel has authority...
They argued bitterly, as they still do. "Therewere times when we went so far, and went nofurther, for the sake or our friendship," saysKaplan. "Sometimes Trig was insulting--he wouldrefer to me as 'a little newspaper Zionist,' and Ithought he was a crank...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
...from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last week denied he had bought such a policy, Hartwig certainly did, and had not scratched Truitt as beneficiary when he died...
Many of Baker's professional anecdotes are familiar, including the still valuable cautionary tale about the late W.H. Lawrence, the Times's White House correspondent whose friendship with John F. Kennedy resulted in gushy coverage that embarrassed the paper and eventually led to Lawrence's departure. It is impossible to avoid dated material in a reminiscence. It is also difficult to write an autobiography when one has been more an observer than a participant...