Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that she began writing fiction, waiting for her husband Don, a political reporter, to come home. "I started a historical novel, a romance novel, a Jewish novel although I am only a little bit Jewish, some straight novels. A publisher rejected my comedy-of-manners novel with a nice note saying, 'Do you have any more?' So I gave him my first mystery novel, featuring Wexford and Burden, had it accepted and rewrote it all over Christmas one year...
...remember? Maybe you would get more calls if you changed your lifeless digits to whiz- kid, tuff-guy or BUCKS-UP. Several local telephone companies plan as early as October to start offering personalized numbers to consumers, a service they have long made available to business customers. Taking note of the boom in vanity license plates, companies like New York Telephone believe they could entice hundreds of thousands of customers to pay extra for the numbers. Pacific Bell estimates it would impose a $10 changeover fee and a $1.50 monthly charge...
...prompted by a nearfatal automobile accident in Switzerland, where he now lives. "Only an idiot believes that he can write the truth about himself," he begins, and then demonstrates that idiocy becomes him. Unlike Greene's God-haunted memoirs, Ambler's have few ominous moments and only one bitter note. The ironic revelation is his specialty: "Uncle Frank . . . had confidence in himself and had acquired important skills. We knew that because just a week ago he had been giving evidence . . . as a witness for the Prosecution. His expert field was the identification and valuation of non-ferrous scrap metal...
...Here they write the speeches that cap off their weekly protests. Here they plan and write their monthly newspaper--a professional-looking montage of interviews and articles which they began in 1983 in reaction to an establishment press that, with one noble exception, had for six years refused to note their presence...
...contemporary flag waving. In 1984 the Del-Lords kicked off their first album, Frontier Days, with an up-tempo version of an old blues, How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, which Kempner had discovered on a Ry Cooder recording. The new album opens on a note of embattled optimism with Heaven: "I need something that I can believe in/ And another person just won't do . . . I believe . . . that there's better days ahead/ I believe . . . there's a heaven before I'm dead." Kempner trucks fresh force and vigor to the antiwar genre in Soldier...