Word: guys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...returns to those years, as if drawn by a magnet of nostalgia. Lily's family came from the Kentucky hill country, but like many impoverished Southerners, her parents moved north to Detroit during the Depression. She was born there in 1939 and named Mary Jean. Her father Guy became a toolmaker in a brass factory, where he prided himself on being able to devise any tool his bosses needed; often he would bring them home to show "Babe," as he called her. Says Lily: "I was about 15 when I visited the factory where my father had worked...
Gradually Guy drank more and more. Lily would go with him to the neighborhood bars, where he would make her sing. He was proud of her, constantly encouraging her to "show out" and display her flair for the dramatic...
...jacket, light a cigarette and march around with a glass of something. I really think Mother sensed that we might take a stick to her if she didn't stop telling us what to do. So she decided to stop mothering." Lillie Mae, who returned to Kentucky after Guy died in 1973, says simply: "Lily was always a stubborn child, and I went along with a lot of things other mothers didn...
...need a man good-looking enough to pick up a dame who has a sense of class, but he's got to be tough enough to swap punches with a power shovel. I need a guy who can backchat like Fred Allen, only better, and get hit on the head with a beer truck and think some cutie in the leg-line topped him with a breadstick...
...loan) and Cole's Metropolitan Householders Directory ($200, but it lists telephones by address and is crucial in tracing an erring husband's surreptitious calls). There is no evidence that Blye has read any Kafka, but if he did, he would probably want to call up the guy and chat. He loves red tape. Lew Archer is never seen writing depositions, but Blye must take them to exacting specifications from any credible witness. Every line of testimony from a witness is numbered, then read back to the speaker, who must swear that he understands each word. Blye even...