Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There were, almost from the start, two Kings. Mr. Outside grew up in Durham, Me., where his mother had moved to care for her aging parents. He was oversized and ungainly, with a thatch of unruly black hair, buck teeth and thick glasses, the one who was predictably chosen last in sandlot games. Mr. Inside was the fatherless boy who held a lot of "anger that has never been directed. In my inward life, I still boil a lot." So it is no surprise that many of King's books could be fairly called "The Revenge of the Nerds...
...disconnected the month King turned in the manuscript of Carrie, a novel about an adolescent with telekinetic powers and a lethal resentment of her high school tormentors. The work was worth a $2,500 advance, more than enough to pay some bills. And a good thing too: on Mother's Day, 1973, a Doubleday editor called about the sale of paperback rights. "I thought he was going to tell me I was only getting $5,000 or something," King fondly remembers. "He said $400,000. The only thing I could think to do was go out and buy my wife...
...great many of the King-Bachman books seem to have been written on a word processor by a word processor. The author often employs three exclamation points !!! where one would suffice, shows a blithe disregard for grammar ("My mother used to tell my brother David and I to 'hope for the best and expect the worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince...
...complain that not much is new in Nightingale. Like many people with long practice at being interviewed, Williams tended to repeat well-rehearsed witticisms. But the flavor is authentic, especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over...
...future President's courtship of his wife Patricia is detailed in Julie Nixon Eisenhower's sympathetic account of the trials and triumphs of the family Nixon as seen through her mother's eyes. Pat Nixon: The Untold Story, to be published in November by Simon & Schuster, portrays the former First Lady as an intensely private woman from whom the entire family, particularly her husband, drew strength...