Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professor removes his tweed jacket, hangs it on the back of a chair and prepares to teach what is widely acknowledged to be unteachable. Things are going well for him. His big new novel, Cloudsplitter (HarperCollins; 758 pages; $27.50), about the raging, God-haunted 19th century abolitionist John Brown, is about to hit the bookstores, and he has learned this very day that director Atom Egoyan's movie of his novel The Sweet Hereafter has earned two Academy Award nominations. Another film, drawn from his novel Affliction and starring Nick Nolte, is ready for distribution. He smiles. Equal to equal...
McNamara won a 1997 Pulitzer Prize for her Boston Globe column. McCorkle was a creative writing teacher in the College for five years and published the 1996 novel Carolina Moon...
...think most African intellectuals relate to some aspect of Samba Diallo," he says, referring to a character in a Senagalese novel who struggles to preserve his African and Muslim heritage while becoming a Parisian intellectual...
...Doctors said that the cause was low heat in the house and not being fed for four days. Lensky was born around February 10, 1997. Fish, samurai, world traveller, Lensky was named for the romantic poet of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" who is killed in a duel with the novel's title character. Lensky himself never led the romantic life that his namesake fancy, but he did exhibit the feeling of modish spleen of the 19th-century aristocratic like the characters in Pushkin's novel. Lensky could always be found languoring in his bowl, not doing much of anything...
...show had a novel format: for five days straight, the same four contestants are assaulted with questions from categories like "Name That Hair," "Pastahead" and "Where's Coolio?" Each game has four rounds. At the end of round one, the person in fourth place becomes the "dunce," sits in a corner and has to wear an ugly orange and green floppy jester hat. For the final round, the top scorer is placed in the "Cylinder of Shush" (sort of like the "Cone of Silence" on "Get Smart") and competes against the clock, with 45 seconds to answer 10 questions from...