Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ideal museum show would therefore be a mating of Brideshead Revisited (the only vulgar novel Evelyn Waugh wrote) with House & Garden. It should borrow widely and set forth an impressive parade of authoritative objects, with special attention paid to the decorative arts. It should sketch a portrait of a vanished order without revisionist detail, thus provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had. Its opening nights should be long, socially frantic and attended by as many titled lenders and assorted Chinless Wonders as can be flown across the Atlantic. Royalty should be present...
...Through the Labyrinth (1979) and Old Glory (1981), a Huckleberry Finnish, updated account of a journey down the Mississippi. With much of the world left to explore and write about, Raban has elected to make a voyage of a different and distinctly perilous kind. Foreign Land is his first novel...
DIED. Marion Tanner, ninetyish, quirky, colorful, real-life model for the heroine of the Broadway musical Mame, which was based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame, written by her nephew Edward Everett Tanner III under the pen name Patrick Dennis; of pneumonia precipitated by a stroke; in a New York City nursing home. For more than three decades she ran a salon for struggling artists, writers, self-styled radicals and, later, drifters. In 1964, unable to meet mortgage payments, she was evicted from her house, prompting a deputy sheriff on the case to remark, "She is an amazing woman...
...supercollider would be still another in a string of new colossal accelerators that seem to be proliferating almost as rapidly as the novel particles they produce. In these machines, electrons or protons (and usually their antimatter counterparts, positrons or antiprotons) are spurred to nearly the speed of light and tremendous energy levels by radio waves and steered on their circular course by magnets. The monumental girth of the new machines stems from limitations in the power of the guiding magnets; bigger circular tracks have gentler curves and thus require less intense magnetic fields to keep the particles on their required...
...story of Columbia's hegemonic real estate expansion is old news. Where Schwartz lends novel insight is in describing the situation in terms of people instead of issues, laws, and impersonal housing units...