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There are rumbles too from the author's former Shangri-La. A rancid attack by Atlanta-based free-lancer Ed Hinton in January's GQ charged that Grisham is sullying the sacred ground where Faulkner once trod: "In a long line of Mississippi writers, Grisham is a singular aberration and paradox, the worst and the richest, the least distinguished and the most popular." The article outraged most locals, who point out that Grisham helped pay to repair the Faulkner estate and rescued a new literary periodical, the Oxford American. Says novelist Barry Hannah, who has a formidable reputation...
...gospel) and the plainspoken words of people who lived through it. They are mostly anonymous folks, free of sanctimony or self-importance. People like Uless Carter, a bespectacled, Mississippi-born minister, who reminisces with the sweet-tempered grace of a character in a John Ford western. Or James Hinton, one of 22 children of Alabama sharecroppers, who later owned a Chicago barbershop and whose gentle, unhurried gravity is something close to poetry. Like this series...
...uncertainty may itself be used to advantage. "I look at it this way," says Susie Hinton, an elementary school principal. "They are a vehicle that we can use to break down an old way of doing things. It's hard to change unless you have someone come along who is an outsider, who can come in and stir up the pot. The threat alone of E.A.I. has stirred up the pot to such a degree around here you can't believe it." She adds, "The system is broken now, and we can't go back to business as usual...
Although BC center Bill Curley, a 6'9" power forward, is picked by some to be on the All Big-East first team, the Eagles have little depth in the paint. Senior David Hinton and sophomore Kevin Hrobowski return from last year's squad as big question marks...
With its solemn narration and nostalgic tone, "A River Runs Through It" resembles that sub-genre of the "American tragedy" that seems to be very popular in high school literature courses - stories like John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men" or S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders." A pall hangs over much of the film as the audience tries to guess which of the two brothers will meet an untimely...