Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...novel...
That was the dream that enabled him to survive the bleak and penniless early years in Paris, the dream that the chaos of manuscripts he had piled up in his grimy little hotel room -- all the retyped drafts and new inserts and scribbled revisions -- really was a novel and would someday make him famous. A short and rather pudgy youth with froggy eyes, Jimmy had worked on this book about his Harlem boyhood for five or six years back in the U.S. But he had run through a publisher's advance without getting the novel finished. He had worked...
Jimmy did, of course, finally get that first novel finished. "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else," he later told the New York Times. "I had to deal with what hurt me most. I had to deal with my father." His father -- stepfather, actually -- had been a Harlem preacher so possessed by anger that he regularly beat his children. "His father's arm, rising and falling, might make him cry," Jimmy wrote in the autobiographical Mountain, "yet his father could never be entirely the victor, for John cherished something that...
...fame and luxury the book's acclaim earned her. Donner loudly proclaims to anyone who will listen that he wants her dead. At the same time, he suffers from a writer's block so intense that he is unable to finish even the first sentence of his novel or make love to his girl-friend Beth, played with pretty, intelligent understatement by Kim Griest...
...economic realities are being brought home the hard way at the giant firm most closely identified with the hardball style of practice. Finley, Kumble started in 1968 with a handful of attorneys and a then novel intent to operate like a business. This year, with offices in 13 U.S. cities and London, it has boasted 684 lawyers, including such prominent names as former New York Governor Hugh Carey and former Senators Paul Laxalt and Russell Long. Plagued by years of in-house feuding and a bank debt of some $60 million, however, the firm may soon be better known...