Word: gal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trying to convince her love Jeff that she can endure the danger and hardship he tackles on his photography assignments. She doesn't have to be holed up in some fashion salon or at the editor's desk of a fashion magazine. She's an independent gal who will prove to Jeff that even though she is from Park Avenue and knows the ritziest people in town (and could get him fashion shoots or portrait opportunities by the dozen in the City), she can weather anything...
...mower emits the same amount of hydrocarbons in one hour as does a new car driven 340 miles. A chain saw operated for two hours produces hydrocarbons equivalent to those emitted by a new car driven 3,000 miles. Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 17 million gal. of fuel are spilled each year just refueling such equipment -- more than the amount spilled by the Exxon Valdez in the Gulf of Alaska...
Charleston, South Carolina, has always been a city of two tales -- one white, the other black, running parallel, sometimes clashing but seldom touching. That is one reason why Ruthie Bolton's Gal: A True Life (Harcourt Brace; 275 pages; $19.95) is such a remarkable book, for it is the result of an unlikely collaboration between two writers -- one black and unpublished, the other white and well established. Gal is also remarkable as that one-in-a-million unsolicited manuscript that actually gets published. But most impressive is the book itself...
...author of Gal is a 33-year-old former employee at a plant nursery who is the wife of a restaurant worker and the mother of five children. She has adopted the pseudonym Ruthie Bolton to spare her family embarrassment over some of the raw events she writes about. Josephine Humphreys, 49, is a Charleston native and a highly regarded novelist. Her Dreams of Sleep, Rich in Love and The Fireman's Fair have impressed readers and reviewers with their perceptiveness, their quiet humor and their blend of the courtly conservatism and racy spirits that have survived in and around...
...compare Bolton and the Nobel prizewinner may seem farfetched, but the woman behind Gal uses language with a Bellovian zest. She even has something of Bellow's broad moral overview. Gal is not about racism, feminism or victimization. The book enters the darkness of a "no-love family" without self-pity or bitterness and moves steadily toward the light. The sense of authentic experience eagerly seized is sharp on every page...