Word: jinx
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sheer interest. Roth jumbles in more characters--the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (who actually exists); his cousin Apter, a slow-witted artist and Holocaust survivor (who doesn't): George Ziad, an old graduate school friend who is now a militant Palistinian living on the West bank; Jinx Possesski, Pipik's Polish nurse and girlfriend (who is a recovering anti-Semite enrolled in Pipik's Anti-Semites Anonymous) and Jonathan Pollard, the American convicted of spying for Israel...
...Haven, however, the Crimson's Ingalls Rink jinx continued--65 minutes wasn't enough to decide a very physical, penalty-marred, 5-5 draw...
...JINX didn't stop there. A few weeks later, a cute senior called to ask me to a fall formal. Carefully I picked out my slinkiest cocktail dress, matching high heels, and a large vase to hold the armload of flowers he would undoubtedly bring...
Afterwards, the Crimson couldn't stop gushing over how goalie Chuckie Hughes (38 saves) kept the Crimson alive. Of course, once all the glee over `breaking the Beanpot jinx' ended, Harvard had to get down to business: a final against BU, which perennially finished strong...
These are the elements, more or less, of this loopy, endearing novel (the author's first, it is surprising to realize) about the early days of radio. The time is the mid-'30s, the place is Studio B of Station WLT, Minneapolis. There is a jinx on Studio B, "the snakebite studio at WLT, the tomb of the radio mummy . . . Dad Benson gasped for breath during Friendly Neighbor and two huge flies dove into his throat and almost choked him . . . Reed Seymour once got the hiccups in there so bad his partial plate came...