Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world around the Hoods and the Carvers, serves as a kind of natural catalyst which brings all of their disappointments and repressed feelings to the surface, or at least forces them to break through their stiff behavioral code and emote. The Ice Storm, based on Rick Moody's 1994 novel, is a complex and, almost inevitably, flawed work of art, but one can't help being affected by nearly everything that transpires...
...there had been an uproar over her involvement in the firings at the White House travel office, and later over her possible hand in the gathering of FBI files on Republicans who had worked in the White House. By Election Day 1996, every word and deed of this entirely novel First Lady was shadowed by an entirely novel question: Would she be indicted? Hillary had stood by her husband through Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones, through questions about the draft and whether he inhaled, but to see her own moral standards attacked was something new. "That stung her really hard...
That's pretty much how things go in this new adaptation of Washington Square. It reverts to the original title of Henry James' novel about repression and repressiveness among the monied classes of 19th century New York City. But in every other aspect it's a little more--sometimes a lot more--blatant than it needs...
...drinking from the toilet, balloon animals spawned from condoms, and tongue studs constitute the American family experience. More to the point, despite having passed through my own phases of growing pains, tattoos and flunking two college courses, I have, at 22, managed to graduate from Columbia University, publish a novel, embark on my own adult journey and find some time to feel grateful to both my parents for teaching me the tools to find happiness through it all. In other words, I feel remarkably well adjusted for having been the product of Chopra's idealized "warm bubble bath of self...
Pearl is rife with rumors: that others--maybe some adults--helped plot the conspiracy, that a map exists assigning each suspect to a point in the commons in a plan that would have resulted in greater bloodshed, that the Group was inspired by The Secret History, a best-selling novel about New England college students and murder. Notes have been pasted up declaring, in Greek letters, "Luke is God." The stories are overwhelming the town. "We don't know what the motive was," says Mayor Foster, who says there is no proof of a hit list or of cult activity...