Word: jay
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jay McInerney could have spent the rest of his career rewriting Bright Lights, Big City, a well-observed comic novel that caught a generational updraft and became either The Catcher in the Rye of the '80s or the Trout Fishing in America of the '80s, depending on your estimation (I would come down somewhere in between). His subsequent books didn't stray far from the urban high life, but with his fifth novel McInerney aims to limber up and take on something more ambitious...
...echoes of big American writers: the strange romanticism of Fitzgerald's class envy; a Faulknerian obsession with slavery's enduring "curse" on the South; stoic, Hemingwayesque suffering amid sexual loss; and--novelists must have some consistency in their concerns--passages of Herculean drug abuse in the manner of Jay McInerney...
...Harvard Republican Club call upon all students who deem this action by President Clinton irresponsible and inconsistent with the best interests of the American people to contact your representatives or senators immediately in order to show your outrage with the President's veto. --Jay M. Dickerson '98 President of the Harvard Republican Club
...JAY LENO Car-happy comic discovers that rising gasoline prices have put a tiger in his monologues...
...single line: 'To create, you must destroy.'" The band's promoters used the letters to help publicize its new album. Last week Gingrich's office claimed the letters were a hoax, despite being on the Speaker's stationery, complete with signature, gold seal and watermark. Band member Jay Blumenfield believes the letters are authentic. Still, he says, "it's becoming more and more sinister...