Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quoting from his research "so as to create the impression that Bromhall was cooperating or in some way had helped and was vouching for the accuracy and credibility of the book." His suit, filed in U.S. district court in Philadelphia (Lippincott's headquarters), makes a further, and novel demand; it seeks a court order forcing the author and publisher to admit that the book is "a fraud and a hoax" and that "no cloned boy exists...
...financial and sexual hanky-panky that encompasses a titled M.P., a police chief superintendent who turns drag queen by night, Middlesex pols and proles, bird hunters of all varieties and an Arab sheik bent on making the green and pheasant land an adjunct of Riyadh. Molehill is the sixth novel by Oxonian Kenyon, 47, and the first to feature the engaging 'Enry Peckover, whose career can only...
...last Saturday's New York Times, for example, a cursory inspection of the news section revealed several stories bearing menacing portents, directly or otherwise. These items were only connected loosely, in that they add up to one inescapable, and hardly novel, conclusion: America bloats with inertia, and as the torpor grows, rational actions dwindle. Although Fridays in July are supposed to be slow news days, a speculative reader could not help but feel bewildered after reading these seemingly disparate stories...
...Kentucky rescinded its approval, as did South Carolina. Failing the necessary 38 states, pro-ERA factions are pursuing a bill in Congress that would extend the deadline until 1986, an unheard-of break for a Constitutional amendment. That bill may well pass, and so the ERA would, given its novel renewed lease on life, probably pass in the next few years--but realistically it could well go in the way of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in name, but did little else to support the rights of blacks. The real progress of the women's rights movement in America...
...turned in the seat, pulled up her baby-blue skirt and offered two perfect pink buns. In the dark, they glowed like night flowers." Such high school imagery, unavailable in bookstores everywhere since Elia Kazan's last work, The Understudy, is now on display in his latest novel, Acts of Love. The sex is by the numbers, the philosophy has not yet graduated to the sophomoric, the characters are displayed in all their two dimensions, and the narrative is in overdrive...