Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A.T.C. concerns the living arrangement of three people-Earl, an alienated poseur; Laurie, a morbid bank teller; and Jake, a banal house painter and eater of grilled cheese. Earl has snuffed someone, so he is at the mercy of a mysterious Mr. White, the landlord who never comes on the stage. Laurie is Earl's former girlfriend--she is the only one who deals with Mr. White. Jake is a mass of muscle and simplicity, the common man who finds himself lost in the midst of this weirdness. Laurie works at the A.T.C.--American Trust Company--and the play...
...North Carolina Outcome Uncertain James Hunt Jr.-D North Dakota Mark Andrews-R Outcome Uncertain Ohio John Glenn-D Oklahoma Don Nickles-R Oregon Bob Packwood-R Pennsylvania Arlen Specter-R Rhode Island Jospeph Garrahy-D South Carolina Ernest Hollings-D South Dakota James Abdnor-R Tennessee Texas Utah Jake Garn-R Scott Matheson-D Vermont Outcome Uncertain Richard Snelling-R Virginia Washington Slade Gorton-R John Spellman-R West Virginia Jay Rockfeller-D Wisconsin Outcome Uncertain Wyoming
...James Betts Oklahoma 8 Andy Coats Don Nickles Oregon 6 Ted Kulongoski Bob Packwood Pennsylvania 27 Pete Flaherty Arlen Specter Rhode Island 4 Joseph Garrahy Vincent Cianci South Carolina 8 Emest Hollings Marshall Mays South Dakota 4 George McGovern James Abdnor Tennessee 10 Texas 26 Utah 4 Daniel Berman Jake Gam Scott Matheson Bob Wright Vermont 3 Patrick Leahy Stewart Ledbetter Jerome Diamond Richard Snelling Virginia 12 Washington 9 Warren Magnuson Slade Gorton James McDermott John Spellman West Virginia 6 Jay Rockefeller Arch A. Moore Wisconsin 11 Gaylord Nelson Robert Kasten Wyoming 3 TOTAL: 538 *Jacob K. Javits, Liberal Party...
...detective is Jake Pepper, a state investigator who reads Dickens and quotes Twain: "Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one, the solitary one, that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also in all the list, he is the only creature that has a nasty mind...
Capote makes this quotation his centerpiece and turns Jake Pepper into a tragic hero of sorts, a Sam Spade in dungarees and pointy boots. Clues refuse to fall into place for him. Pepper's eminent reason cannot fathom the dementia of Quinn's "nasty mind...