Word: greys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hero is George Grey, who at age 60 is being gently bumped from the last outpost of his expatriate career. The government of Montedor, a former (and fictional) Portuguese colony on the west coast of Africa, has decided it no longer requires his services to oversee the refueling and supplying of passing ships. Grey does not place particular value on his job, the running of "a sort of gas station cum grocer's shop." But he will miss Bom Porto, the seedy, seductive capital of his adopted country, and his mistress Vera, a black woman of commanding girth and friendliness...
...archetypal cowboy, of course, is the famous leading man in the nation's collective unconscious. What Americans carry in their minds is not the historical reality of the cowboy but the myth as it came to them in books and movies, the cowboy according to Zane Grey and John Wayne. Americans, tutored in the lore from childhood, almost unconsciously see cowboy stories as morality plays. Good guys do battle with bad guys. Right generally triumphs. The bad guys end in the hands of the law. In the American understanding of the myth, cowboys may sometimes operate outside...
This was proven last year in the spring, when an old, grey-haired man hobbled slowly and painfully into the store. He introduced himself as John F. Kennedy's valet, who used to come monthly to Keezer's to buy clothes for "the young master...
...side, the Sackler's stripes of orange and grey brick echo the broad strips and curve in Memorial Hall...
Although the images interspersed in the sketchy prose are sometimes provoking--such as the "fish-slippery pavement" or "champagne on the terraces"--Pete's poetry is absolutely atrocious. Surprisingly, the same artist who penned ballads like "The Sea Refuses No River" and "Blue, Red and Grey" during his songwriting career fails dramatically when it comes to writing verse unaccompanied by music. For no apparent reason, Pete includes fragments of his poetry at the book's beginning, bizarre stuff like...