Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hemingway, who wrote nearly half his life's work here between 1928 and 1938, was the first big draw, and he is still the dominant local legend. As a resident, Novelist David Kaufelt (Six Months with an Older Woman) is fond of explaining, "Hemingway is our first literary ghost, the big marlin in the sea. Tennessee Williams is now our second ghost, the bougainvillaea twining secretly into our hearts." Robert Frost, Hart Crane and John Dos Passes are only a few of the competing ghosts. By now live writers are so thick on the ground that the pink stucco...
President Reagan has my support as Man of the Year. Andropov, however, has not been seen for months. Perhaps he should be Ghost of the Year...
...innkeeper, whose name was Lyle Wolf, was from Los Angeles. One of a growing number of novices in the trade, he had allowed romanticism to overtake him a couple of years ago, chased the ghost of Thornton Wilder across the continent, and set himself up as a country squire, the possessor of a first-edition mortgage-Bob Newhart with a plumber's helper. His wife's name was Barbara, and Barbara was saying, over wine, that she had a relative hurt in a Corvair...
...this place was a city within a city. There was traffic in and around the plant 24 hours a day. Workers and jobs were everywhere. Today you can walk down the inside of the plant for more than a mile and see nothing. It's a ghost town now, just desolate and depressing...
...Down East Disney keeps his word processor clicking at a phenomenal rate. He has just finished collaborating with fellow Horror Novelist Peter Straub (Ghost Story) on a fantasy novel called The Talisman. After that comes a new collection of short stories, and a lengthy monster opus called IT is in the works. Says Straub: "Steve is a workaholic who wouldn't be happy if he wasn't writing...