Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mild-mannered mom and first-term incumbent Patty Murray, a Democrat, is the antithesis of the modern-day celebrity politician. She doesn't look like one, she doesn't talk like one, she doesn't even care to be one. "I didn't run to be a politician," she said last week after a labor rally in Spokane...
...drive past the place every day, and the first thing I think about is, How did it catch fire? Sometimes I imagine a purely prosaic event like a cracked furnace or cheap Christmas lights sparking on the rug. Sometimes I picture a modern-day Mrs. Danvers from Rebecca standing in the upstairs window, her mad hair swathed in flames, or the first Mrs. Rochester from Jane Eyre as she raves on the roof before torching the joint...
...very gratified author indeed. That big, boisterous novel, his first, proved a point that he had been arguing, much to the annoyance of literary folks, for years: American fiction could still portray the hectic complexities of contemporary social life, could still capture the textures and rhythms of a seething modern city, if novelists would just leave their desks, maybe take a sabbatical from their professorships in creative writing and go out and report on the fabulous stuff taking place all around them. But, Wolfe complained, most post-'60s U.S. novelists had simply abandoned the passing scene in favor of introspection...
...years, he's never made anything up, any detail of fact." Wenner believes Wolfe's strenuous pursuit of precise details, both in his journalism and fiction, has produced a major body of work. "If you read it all together as one piece, you would understand the amazing modern crazy quilt and fabric of contemporary America better than [through] any other thing I can imagine seeing or reading or looking...
With a swastika tattooed on his left pec and a gaudy line of rage against minorities, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is the very model of a modern neo-Nazi--the model, at least, to his doting younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong). While Derek simmers in jail for killing two black malefactors, Danny gets the evil message. He writes a paper on Mein Kampf, shaves his head and becomes a good little Hitler youth. Monkey...