Word: naipaul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mini Moke, an open-sided vehicle that honeymooners use on Caribbean beach tours. He also has a press pass, plenty of Dunhills and unlimited credit at the Red Crab. Just like the old days, only now his faithful companion is not a 300-lb. Samoan attorney, it is V.S. Naipaul...
...Naipaul. The Trinidad-raised, Oxford-educated novelist who has won just about every major literary prize in Britain and is a perennial contender for the Nobel. Naipaul, the chronicler of the Third World, is on assignment for the London Sunday Times. He and Thompson are unlikely friends. The gonzo journalist is quirky, boisterous, happiest when surrounded by cronies in the hotel bar; the gentleman writer is quiet, refined, more comfortable at afternoon tea. But careering around the island, chasing slender threads of news, they seem a matched pair. "It's like having a third eye," Thompson says...
Both saw Literary grist in the Waugh-like war in Grenada. Naipaul, says his London agent, came "to take some mental pictures." Thompson, says his New York editor, was after "a Hunter piece." The anecdotes are as lush as the Grenadian jungle. Staying at a nearby hotel is a CIA man who lives like a bat, eating beans and canned Dinty Moore stew and going out only at night. Then there is Morgan, the inmate at the bombed-out mental hospital, who turned up one evening playing piano at the Red Crab. Because of his light complexion, he was taken...
...World by David Hare. More games, of the highest, most perplexing order. In 1976, at a UNESCO congress in Bombay, wealthy nations trade with poor ones: our money for your dignity. Soon another contest is under way. Victor Mehta (Roshan Seth), an Indian novelist similar to V.S. Naipaul, debates Stephen Andrews (Bill Nighy), a young left-wing journalist, on the subject of an author's responsibility to the Third World objects of his satire. The prize: a pretty American actress, Peggy Whitton (Diana Quick). Believe who will. Why would a novelist of declared hostility to the "barbarians" be invited...
...Nalpaul: Put this gay In the Marquez category. He'll get it. He's from Trinldad, he's upholding the standard of Western Culture, and he has a pen like vipet's tongue. Trouble with Mr. Vidladhar Surajprasad Naipaul, as Bud Collins would cali him, is that he is way too young as well as way too popular. The average age of the last six winners when they got the TNT laurels is over 71, and Bellow '76 was the kid on the block at 61. A fot at 50, Vidiadhar will have to wait...