Word: levins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long before dawn on Aug. 26, Robert E. Chambers Jr., 19, and Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, strolled into New York City's Central Park behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Something happened between them. Chambers allegedly strangled Levin, then remained nearby as morning rose and the body was discovered and removed. Even shockproof New York sat up straight and stared. Something about a killing on a summer night in the park, the brooding sweetness of the shadowed grass. Something more about two upper-middle-class teenagers walking casually into a nightmare reserved for naturalistic American novels: sensational grief, sensational murder...
...genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin has suggested, Hemingway sent postcards back home: "Having a wonderful time, wish you were here." He worked hard at his writing, and yet the interval between Fossalta and Ketchum was also a kind of permanent vacation: Paris, Pamplona, Africa, Key West, Havana, Wyoming. Readers chained to their jobs and mortgages...
...some alternative papers are eager to take on weighty general-interest topics. Jay Levin, editor in chief of L.A. Weekly, is proud of his paper's coverage of Central America and environmental pollution. A 1980 series on smog in Los Angeles earned a citation from the California Newspaper Publishers Association. The North Carolina Independent, published in Durham, has made a reputation for itself by jousting with the state's powerful tobacco interests and big textile manufacturers...
When Showfolk Business Manager Neal Levin needed investors to bankroll a Chinese dim sum diner named Bao Wow in Los Angeles, he naturally turned to clients, including Olympic Gold Medalist Bruce Jenner, Singer Melissa Manchester and Satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic. The first Bao Wow in Beverly Hills was a dog with the dinner trade and closed after a year; the second, in Encino, is a noon and nighttime hit, prompting dreams of a nationwide chain. The Hard Rock Cafe, which offers young Manhattanites an eclectic menu topped with a hefty dollop of rock-'n'-roll memorabilia that includes Elvis Presley...
...twelve are Andrea M. Gauthier, Nikki A. Levin, Gail E. Nelson, Elizabeth Umlas, Takemi Ueno, Julia H. Flanders, Ingrid Boyum, Shari R. Finkelstein, Eugenia C. Katsigris, Hein Kim, Lisa Van Alstyne, and Elizabeth E. Shriberg, all of the class...