Word: generously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gets even stranger. Each year a do-it-yourself city appears overnight. On one makeshift street, a three-story tower of scaffolding grows like a high-tech mushroom; draped with a parachute, it becomes an instant cafe. At a table, generous folks with a spare gallon of blue body paint offer to turn you into an alien. Behind them, two guys have built a house out of old wooden doors hauled in on a yellow rental truck. Inside you hear hypnotic techno music. The house will be gone 48 hours later, as will the rest of the instant city...
...fine, dreamlike first novel, The Light of Falling Stars (Riverhead; 308 pages; $23.95), J. Robert Lennon does start off with an air crash, not far from a Montana town he calls Marshall. But he declines his own generous offer of melodrama (and of irony too, for that matter) and proceeds to a far more interesting narration that amounts to a kind of anti-melodrama. The plane falls, townspeople grieve and attend funerals. But enemies are not reconciled, deep perceptions are not arrived at, lovers do not see each other more clearly and dearly. Paul and Anita, a shakily married couple...
...giant Lippo Group, was talking to a Chinese-American activist about introducing Asian businessmen to the Clinton Administration and using them to funnel money to the Democratic National Committee. There were also new revelations of wire transfers from banks in Asia to two of the D.N.C.'s most generous donors, Johnny Chung and Yogesh Gandhi. But the evidence meant to show that foreign money had worked its way into Democratic coffers was circumstantial at best, and without further proof could be explained away as routine investment and consulting fees...
...hours, the poet often berates himself for not having hymned the "unrelenting mercy of light" and the "shallows' scriptures" of his native St. Lucia as he should. In the end, however, he realizes that what has sustained him all along are the "immortelle" and "wild mammy-apple" of his "generous Eden." As the waves of his melodious argument wash up at last on the shores of thanksgiving and affirmation, one realizes that there is no more serious, or more sonorous, writer living...
...arts editor of TIME magazine from 1974 to 1989 and subsequently as a senior writer and critic, she was always gentle and generous but never one to mince words when she felt a piece of writing fell short of her standards. Her praise for sharp thinking was warm and inspiring, and her critiques of fuzzy stories were softened by wry humor and kindness. When movie critic Richard Corliss, new to the magazine in 1980, submitted the beginning draft of his first cover story to Martha, she responded, "The first three paragraphs are O.K. The fourth one had better sing...