Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nineties: several references to Forrest Gump ("`Such a career-ender for Tom Hanks,'" one character remarks), mention of the Gulf War, of O.J. Simpson--even William Kennedy Smith makes it in (remember him?). But these are all part of Moore's sharp adherence to a realistic world within the novel; it is in the characters where she allows her creative abilities to shine...
...knowledgeable about everyone. From this privileged position, he delivers dispassionate, wry judgment on all and sundry; perhaps a sad situation, but a much more entertaining one for us, the readers. Nor does he inspire much pity in us, so crusty and self-sufficient does he seem. The novel is written from Bech's own point of view, and opens on the grizzled, still prodigiously randy gentleman touring the Czech Republic with lissome, admiring dissidents hanging from his gnarled elbows...
Senior shooting guard Mike Beam ended a game with more subplots than a drugstore romance novel with a three-pointer over Boston College guard Clayton Sims as time expired and the Harvard men's basketball team posted a shocking 62-61 victory before 1,829 at Conte Forum. HARVARD 62 BOSTON COLLEGE...
Jennings, the ABC television anchor, and Brewster, a producer of ABC's 27-hour Century TV series, which will air next year, call their book "a selective look," to be read "like a novel." For the most part, it is a richly satisfying chronicle...
...need a large string section, and that it would be easy to produce." While putting up the production may not have been easy, the operatic rendition of Edith Wharton's famous tale scheduled to open this Friday in the Eliot House dining hall is as richly storied as the novel it is based upon, backed as it is by the musical passion of both Allanbrook Senior and Junior, and that of Brett Egan '98, Lee Poulis '02 and others...