Word: mockingbird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lower Primates, they read every insipid thing you scrawled, and they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a tip, my friend: Mend your ways. Lose the hi-liter. The rest of us are laughing...
...list's top five includes Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis...
...know ourselves through the work we do"; she speaks against lowering standards at apple-packing conferences. Guterson, known for his flannel shirts and the home schooling of his four children, was until recently a high school teacher who cited as his inspiration the schoolroom classic To Kill a Mockingbird. But in the midst of this unpresuming existence, his meticulously researched yet crackling debut novel, Snow Falling on Cedars (1994), became one of the fastest-selling literary novels of the decade, moving more than 2.5 million copies in paperback even as it won critical prizes. (The movie version will be released...
4.To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper...
...second single, but its obvious take on Bowie's cabaret-inflected songs on (you guessed it) Hunky Dory fails because it's precisely that--too obvious. Not even Sheryl Crow playing accordion saves the skittering strings and shuffling snare from being unengaging and pedestrian. The last two tracks, "Mockingbird Girl" and "Opposite Octave Reaction," are fuzzed-out noise rockers--cleverly produced, but utterly uncompelling...