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McCarthy got some grant money for The Orchard Keeper -- the William Faulkner Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters -- and there is no account of his having hit a lick at anything but novel writing since. His second wife, Anne de Lisle, recalls living in a barn with him outside Knoxville for eight years, bathing outdoors, eating beans, her husband rejecting $2,000 offers to speak at universities because everything he had to say was available in those books that no one was buying. The repellent could have been subject matter, but then only a simpleton...
...salesman billed as "America's No. 1 Motivational Speaker." Over doughnuts and coffee with 300 other "VIPs," I nodded and laughed along with everyone else at stories of his hardscrabble boyhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, where his mother said motivational things like this: "You're going to have to lick that calf over again. That job might be all right for some boys. But you're not most boys. You can do better...
...same change overtook--among others--junior Dan "Church Mouse" Morris, who exchanged words with Lloyd after Harvard's defeat of Brown. Asked later what he had said, Morris smiled and said, "Oh. I was just wishing him lick on the rest of the season...
...that giddy couple in Maggie's photo, Brian J. Murphy '95 (left) and Jonathan D. Caverley '95 (right) on the couch, coyly sipping their tall cool ones and reveling in the ecstasy of loooove. One Crimson photographer commented, "It's not really a kiss. It's more like a lick." Whatev. We think Doisneau would've shot "The Lick" if he could've found one as cute as this...
...people don't always agree with me." It is fitting that the editor who brought both Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern between hard covers is, in her own world, as controversial as either. A former reporter for the National Enquirer, she joined Simon & Schuster in 1988 without a lick of book-publishing experience. Yet she showed a nose for hot celebrities, bringing in books by Kathie Lee Gifford, Hollywood executive Dawn Steel and even (her next project) MTV superstars Beavis and Butt-head. To admirers, Regan is a passionate editor with keen commercial instincts; to detractors, an abrasive publicity hound...