Word: ginia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went-to-Exeter name: Bennington Bloom. Bennington is the daughter of a well-off math professor, which makes her job choice even more implausible. She is not so much a hooker with a heart of gold as she is a hooker with nerves of creme brulee, says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. She is comically neurotic -- her heels and condoms are always spilling out of her book bag -- and prone to ulcers and indigestion. Belle is an exceptionally funny writer, but Bellafante says it1s hard to get past the fact that she never gives us a believable reason for Bennington1s particular...
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...Ginia Bellafante. Reported by Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
...references to Flemish painters and Eastern boarding schools -- the kind of felon who exists maddeningly often in pop culture and rarely ever in real life, where major crimes are not generally committed by people who sound as though they've been reading Roland Barthes between mutilations," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. The story demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison. But the problem with 'Alice' is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author...