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...WILLIAM NEAL MOORE...
...publishing, but Paul Prudhomme's blackened everything has overshadowed the basics such as red beans and rice and pralines. Justin Wilson, who has a Cajun-cooking show on PBS, has remedied that with his humorous tome, Homegrown Louisiana Cookin' (Macmillan; $19.95). Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie by Bill Neal (Knopf; $19.95) serves the same purpose for Southern baking. It is comprehensive and sparingly illustrated...
Ginsberg and Kerouac were both Easterners who attended Columbia University and then hit the road in search of direct experience and spontaneity. They found it personified in Neal Cassady, a Denver reform-school graduate and car thief with a gift of gab and sexual electricity that connected with the boys as well as the girls. Cassady and Ginsberg became lovers while Kerouac embraced Cassady's bebop monologues as part of his own prose style. Dean Moriarty, the hero and mobile savage of On the Road, is Neal Cassady right down to his pedal foot. "He was," wrote Kerouac early...
This is the Neal Cassady that beckons from his widow's memoir 22 years after his death in Mexico at the age of 42. That he survives Carolyn Cassady's recollections with some of the legend intact suggests not only that a successful con man sells what people want to buy but also that he must believe in the pitch himself. For the author, who was an adventuresome graduate of Bennington when she met Cassady in 1947, this meant that life could be more exciting than settling down with a guy named Bill. With a guy named Neal...
...FAIR. Almost everyone else is coming, but there may not be a U.S. pavilion at the Expo 1992 Universal Exhibition in Seville, Spain. The U.S. Information Agency requested $15 million over three years to help build a display hall. Uh-uh, replied Iowa Congressman Neal Smith, chairman of the House USIA subcommittee: "We are no longer going to construct buildings and then pay to tear them down after only six months." Without funds for architect and construction contracts, warns Marvin Stone, the U.S. commissioner general for the fair, "the project will die this month." Moreover, a snub...